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by vacri 3225 days ago
I pick Apple's California campuses. Now, where are the people flinging themselves off company buildings there?

This apologism misses the fact that the Foxconn suicide statistics are about suicide attempts on company grounds reported to the company. Most suicide attempts aren't known to the company - if someone dies outside the company, it's not necessarily known to the company or counted as part of the aggregate statistics.

I've known two people attempt suicide, and neither of them let their workplace know. Similarly, a friend of a friend committed suicide by flinging himself from a hospital roof - do you really think his company would count his death as being due to their workplace? Of course not, what company would ever tie a suicide to themselves if they could avoid it, regardless of whether they contributed to it.

In short, your argument makes the false assumption that the people killing themselves at their workplace are the only suicides in that demographic.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3561995/Police-inves...

Although I don’t know what this does to your statistics; Foxconn employed and houses 2x magnitude more workers vs the apple campus (which houses none)