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Rauha	2010-05-27 , 11:23
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Originally Posted by juise-

If I'm getting the contents of above link right, 9 in an year is still below the rate of average population, ~ 14 per 100000 per year. So expected yearly amount of suicides in population of 300000 would be 42.

Am I missing something?

You are oversimplying the national statistics to a sub-population.

Those national level suicides are mostly done by:
-People who are terminally ill
-People with financial difficulties (unemployment, banktruptcy, etc)
-Take place at home or hospital

The Foxconn suicides are committed:
-People in health well enough for physical work at a production facility
-People who are employed
-Done at work and seemingly as a protest against employer

In other words, they aren't typical suicides committed by the kind of people who normally kill themselves.

Originally Posted by juise-

Certainly I'm not trying to say that everything is good with the working enviroment for these factory employees. I'm just saying that all the press publicity around the issue might be a bit sensationalist.

There's definately lot of sensationalism involved. Horrible working conditions in chinese factories have been known for a longtime. Foxconn workers are propably better off than most chinese factory workers. But we get our stuff cheaply thanks to them. So no worries, until cool brand gets involved.