Factory conditions drive workers to suicide
http://www.theage.com.au/technology...rkers-asked-to-sign-pledge-20100526-wddd.html
http://www.theage.com.au/technology...rkers-asked-to-sign-pledge-20100526-wddd.html
Suicide Factory
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This hardly surprises me.
Common practise in these factories is for you too stand for four hours, forbidden to talk, forbidden to piss with every part of you covered except your eyes in highly sterile, warm environments doing repetitive tasks too fiddly for machines to programmed to do efficiently.
All these workers gain at the end of the day is enough for accommodations, an amount of food that most westerners would consider too little for even a child and then they usually STILL find a way to send it back to the farming families they had to leave so that they can afford a little more food too.
The issue isnt the suicides here, too be honest I believe it would break 99% of the people both posting on here and in the western world, the issue is that for the damned electronics, the new Ipads people where queuing outside doors for this week and the $39.99 MP3 players, your TV's and remotes and even the computers that allow us to post you are contributing to slavery. (Inb4 thats the only life they know) It doesnt make it fucking right.
I wonder now if their are such things as Ethical Electronics.
Common practise in these factories is for you too stand for four hours, forbidden to talk, forbidden to piss with every part of you covered except your eyes in highly sterile, warm environments doing repetitive tasks too fiddly for machines to programmed to do efficiently.
All these workers gain at the end of the day is enough for accommodations, an amount of food that most westerners would consider too little for even a child and then they usually STILL find a way to send it back to the farming families they had to leave so that they can afford a little more food too.
The issue isnt the suicides here, too be honest I believe it would break 99% of the people both posting on here and in the western world, the issue is that for the damned electronics, the new Ipads people where queuing outside doors for this week and the $39.99 MP3 players, your TV's and remotes and even the computers that allow us to post you are contributing to slavery. (Inb4 thats the only life they know) It doesnt make it fucking right.
I wonder now if their are such things as Ethical Electronics.
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