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Posted on Feb 7, 2012

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By Ben, March 6 at 12:48 pm Link to this comment
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If you actually read the article about the suicide rate at Apple factories in China, you would have noted that their workers committed suicide at a rate half that of the general population.  That’s right, working in the so called sweat shop cut the rate of suicide in half.

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By heterochromatic, February 9 at 8:24 pm Link to this comment

smh—-good point. robocalls calls from people
pretending to be sweatshop workers are increasingly
frequent and very annoying, my personal assistant tells
me.

do you know that my girlfriends mother was fired from
her job in a sweatshop, but know makes $3159 every
week?

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By smh, February 8 at 9:04 pm Link to this comment
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@ diman

its obvious you’re an american. not only do you think a sweatshops workers life can be described as not bad, you’re obviously stupid enough to believe that those texts were actually sent.

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By diman, February 8 at 11:29 am Link to this comment

If this person from a sweatshop is presumably typing from another IPhone and complaining about his working conditions, I’d say his life is not that bad.

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