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by Cor 5205 days ago
By all accounts, Foxconn factories seem to treat their workers significantly better than other Chinese factory owners. Several reports have shown this.

The reason why the media chooses to focus on Foxconn, and Apple in particular, is for the easy clicks.

I'm not saying that conditions in Foxconn factories are ideal - they're not - but they're much better than some of the truly awful factories that can be found in various developing countries. It's a real shame that the media chooses to ignore them.

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And the suicide rate of Foxconn employees is about 10x lower than China's national average:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides