[cycomanic]

You mean the number of suicides at foxconn? The forced labour that is likely contributing to many of the large mobile phone company bottomlines. The blatant benchmark fraud that happens all the time by all the large GPU and CPU manufacturers, I could go on. But I don't see the press all over this 24/7 t all, maybe some small niche outlets sometimes. In comparison the scrutiny that the academic world is under (if we relate to the affected people and effects) is much, much larger

[barry-cotter]

> You mean the number of suicides at foxconn?

There are fewer suicides at FoxConn than would be expected given the age profile and number of their employees. If you employ hundreds of thousands of people some of them will kill themselves for reasons entirely unrelated from work. If they live in work dormitories they’ll do it at work.

[jollybean]

Your example proves my point: Foxconn is 1/2 a world away, and news from that part of the world never penetrates pop culture.

That we have heard about it, implies a degree of scrutiny.

When Google fires an AI researcher in a sensitive position, it's an international event.

If Exxon executives committed suicide in the face of some kind of forced fraud/corruption, it would be a national story.