Since the release of the first iPhone there have been 17 suicides at the Foxconn factory in China, the factory where most of the iPhone components are manufactured. The working conditions are grueling — a million employees all doing the same repetitive, soul-destroying tasks. In response to the suicides and the controversy concerning Apple's role in the deaths Jobs is quoted as saying, "Although every suicide is tragic, Foxconn's suicide rate is well below the China average", insinuating that working conditions were not a factor at all. Pretty twisted to think of death as stats and numbers, but hey, who am I to talk? I've got a "Steve's Time in Hell" counter on my homepage.
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