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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8091)	2/4/2012 1:43:14 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

A Chinese safety net ... no wonder Tom Friedman wishes we were like China.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8091)	2/4/2012 1:48:37 PM
From: sm1th	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

workers in Chengdu are required to sign a “no suicide” pact in their contracts. " What is the penalty for violating the no suicide clause?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8091)	2/4/2012 3:03:38 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

I'm not defending Foxcon. I wasn't there, and I haven't studied it in depth. I don't know all the important details and neither does anyone else in this conversation. But obviously conditions there where bad. Which doesn't mean the job isn't better than the alternative. As the studies mention in my other recent posts here show, the pay is higher, and usually the conditions are better and companies that supply rich countries, then in the other alternatives. Even if everything bad said about Foxcon is true (and I wouldn't casually assume that), its still on the whole giving its workers a better life than they otherwise would have. That's why they chose to work there. Assuming China keeps moving towards a freer market, a generation from now something like Foxcon's conditions won't be above the norm for China, or even the norm, they will be at the margins, or perhaps even non-existent.