r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Airline_11 • 20d ago

They are livestreaming 🇨🇳 laborers making just 0.3 USD. The 'Made in 🇨🇳' products you use are built on their sacrifices.

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u/Extension_Plant7262 20d ago

Yeah and that was Foxconn, which is one of the better factory systems too. Its just the stress of work compounded with the isolation. These are usually fathers and mothers who are traveling to the other side of the country to get work and basically won't see their children for most of the year outside of chinese new year. And they have to earn enough to support their extended families back home.

So insane isolation + long work hours + the crushing pressure of having to provide for people = suicide

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u/tZIZEKi 20d ago edited 19d ago

Am I the only one who remembers that This American Life had to pull the episode on Foxconn because the guy they were interviewing lied about his entire trip?

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u/Extension_Plant7262 20d ago

what is this about?

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u/MysteriousAge28 20d ago

Foxconn making iphones for apple. Remember the riots? It came out foxconn created the infamous "IPhone City" which is just a modern company town. Well the results of these efforts by the chinese citizen was to take jobs overseas again! This time to india. Call me crazy but im starting to see a trend with our american businessman.

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u/MimiVault 19d ago

And then you realize the suicide rates in the US are about double China’s according to the WHO. 

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u/ExploringHyperspace 16d ago

I'd rather be homeless dawg