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Or if words don’t suffice; a figure may. While the lump sum 360,000RMB payment by Foxconn to Sun Dan Yong’s family was standard industry practice and complies with Chinese Government regulations, the revised offer with an additional annual stipend of 30,000RMB to Sun’s parents until both of them are diseased is highly unorthodox. – the human cost.
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It's heartbreaking to read this Emma, but in the same breath reading you coping so well considering is inspirational, this totally helps me to appreciate life more. Thank you.
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Hard News: Getting to the bottom of…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Thanks for posting that, I'm interested, From Nova's Forbes link:
1800RMB is exactly what I have in hand every month after accommodation, food and utilities. Stan and Dan are asking the right questions. There was a rash of suicides one year and given the employment opportunities in China and the lack of suicides (assuming they were all suicides) at Foxconn prior to 2010, financial considerations seem unlikely to be a primary contributing factor. Whatever the prevailing influence on this phenomena, it's subsiding. I'm quite astonished at the amount of prevarication that seems to emerge from both sides of this issue, be it the dubious equivalence via StatsChat or any other kind (no matter how small) of factually incorrect data (via Gizmodo; via Forbes);
As for Sun Danyong, Apple have the last word:
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Whitney Spears died? damn, I loved that show.
Hopefully not too tangentially..
This article mentions a movement to ban smoking outside bars. 'One drug town' fundamentalism does little to reflect the comparative harmfulness of alcohol. Less punters in or around the bars is economically regressive, it doesn't adequately reflect the predilections of our society and it undermines the fostering of inclusive integrated community. Safety is in numbers. Legislators deny and marginalize social demographics instead of prioritizing the reintegration of users and restoration of social fabric.
When legislators unreasonably oppose widespread social customs, a community is unrepresented and any education administered at the behest of legislators is skeptically regarded as lacking legitimacy by portions of society with the greatest needs.
As citizens plonked at the feet of the God, marginalized for predilections, our identity remains uncertain, we are tempered to entreat because there is no response when we politely ask - "Do you mind if I smoke here?"
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To be precise: the suicide rate at Shenzen was significantly less than the lowest of several reported rates for the Chinese population as a whole: 6.6 per 100,000. And it's a third of the all-ages suicide rate in New Zealand and a quarter of New Zealand's rate of suicide in the younger demographic likely to be working the assembly lines for Foxconn. We might want to think about that.
As suggested, I had a good hard long think about it. it's my conclusive opinion that comparing the suicide rate at a factory (which in May 2010 stated it had prevented a further 30 people from trying to kill themselves in the past three weeks alone.) whose workers are all gainfully employed, vetted for possible personality abnormalities via a controlled interview process, ostensibly healthy, accommodated, fed, and I'm assuming mandatorily drug tested with a swag of population, aged from 0 upwards, in various states of health, nutrition, accommodation and employment (give or take a parameter here or there) is an entirely valueless exercise.
I am concerned that the male/female ratio in the suicide rate at the factory is at odds with national trend and I wonder if the fact that China is the only country in the world where female suicides outnumber male suicides has been taken into account when hiring in an attempt to skew the in house suicide rate.
The company I work for employs 35,000 people, suicide is not a significant issue within or to the company because the working conditions are not that bad.
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We were ahead of our time in rural New Zealand.
Certainly. I was going for 'irrational' as you brought the word in - "2 without or deprived of normal mental clarity or sound judgment." We all grieve in our own ways JacksonP. Speaking for myself, I love heroes. PAS is populated by my heroes, people who show real compassion but aren't afraid to call out a spade. The world is not egalitarian, and PAS answers that call in a beautiful way. But it is for who you are not what you do that I love you*. And that's an important distinction.
Who are we remembering? A person or a list of products. It's relevant. Steve Jobs wasn't involved with the development of the LC 575, it was created by the company he founded 8 years after they fired him. For me, the Steve Jobs greatest truism was:
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.
*especially you Sacha.
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Consider it the way you might consider the funeral of a member of your own family
That’s hardly appropriate. I didn’t call him an asshole. He seemed more troubled than anything else.
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to JacksonP,
Oh well. From helping to install the Apple 11e computers in our school in 1981
irrational.
platitudes.
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Bart Janssen,
it crass and inappropriate at this time and in this thread.
No offence intended there Bart. Steve Jobs seemed to be one whose virtues and flaws enjoyed an uncanny overlap. I'd read the article a few days back and noticed that today it had slipped off the top stories. Perhaps misguidedly I felt that without the iffy headline the article wasn't unreasonable and presented a relative counterbalance to some of the platitudes being bandied about.
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Yes.