So in the past few months, a few, just a handful really, of Chinese worker-slaves committed suicide. Twelve Foxconn technology workers attempted suicide since the start of the year and they were the first. Now, a weak management has caved into the workers and given the workers a 33% raise! Now these fat cat workers will be earning 1200 yuan or $176 a month!
That seems like shit in the civilized world but in a savage wilderness like China, that's a king's ransom. These lazy workers, who are apparently working to death on occasion (but only a dozen times in the past six months) will be able to afford their own McMansions, further inflating the Chinese real estate bubble. Outrageous, you say? Well, this reporter agrees.
Soon these unskilled laborers will be able to earn a "living wage" of $259 to $310 dollars a month!! That's as much as a Nigerian worker makes in a year! And yet many commentators with obvious political agendas label this atrocity as "progress." Why don't they tell that to the Nigerians slaving away for much less?
Fellow primates of all shapes and sizes, enough is enough. I for one, draw the line at giving these fat cats enough money to see a therapist and deal with the crippling psychological abuse rightfully dealt out by management. A living wage? Why bother if they're just going to off themselves? And on company time, on company grounds using company ropes, cleaning products and cutting implements!
If you're ready to defend our way of life raise your voices against this injustice!
The article is majorly tripping. The workers were under extreme stress and were worked from 8 to 8 everyday nonstop at the production line. It is as bad as banking if not worse. Even if they got the raised, their salary are now IN LINE with the rest of the major competitors in China.
And no, even the money after the raise will not provide them with a much improved lifestyle. The salary they got barely got them by each month.
It's a lot worse. The comparison is out of place.
Anyway - the Chinese try hard to keep up with inflation brought on by incresed monetary supply. So hard in fact, that they turn to suicide(!) if they fail. Seriously, for their sake and the rest of the world economy, someone should obliterate the chinese central bank - the biggest and undeserved benefactor of the countries spectacular growth. The government is now sitting on 2 to 5 trillion $ reserves, depending on who you listen to. If things stay the way they are, the Chinese will keep on working with no substantial improvment to their standards of living, sucking out all of the jobs from the developed world.
OP i think you cap lock is stuck
OP, get your facts straight... the company pressured those employees into commiting suicide...
lmao. one of my japanese friends is old school right wing. you sound like his grandpa.
i can't stop laughing. you know tintin? the blue lotus? mitsuhirato? rolfmao
People shouldn't talk something out of their ass if you don't know enough about China.
Disclaimer: Yes I am Chinese and yes I have been living in NYC.
I agree with all your points. I was using sarcasm. Even on this forum don't you think someone saying that workers should put up with management's "crippling psychological abuse" is rediculous? Equally so with calling workers lazy when they work themselves to death?
Plus, while I agree that comparing the cost of living between NYC and Hangzhou is foolhardy at first, if you read the article in question, you would see that people seem to consider "a living wage" to equal to 1700-2100RMB, not 1200RMB. That only furthers the satyr/sarcasm.
But I'm sorry if the humor wasn't communicated clearly. If English is your second language, that's understandable. It's admirable to stick up for your fellow countrymen as they suffer inhumane working conditions.
My apologies if you were using sarcasm. That wasn't quite clear for me.
Migrant workers are such a special social group in China and cannot be found elsewhere in the world. They have been moving into cities in Pearl River Delta and Yangtse River Delta in past decades and the phenomenon raised serious attention from all over our society and even academia. My point was actually not to oppose your arguments completely but to say that the Foxconn suicides was a complex issue and cannot be attributed solely to wage/stress/management etc. In a word, under certain conditions, they might not have a choice in the first place but to work for companies such as Foxconn, knowing that they'll be working to death in the end.
I appreciate you cleared your point up for me and I'd like to hear more opinions on this.
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