What our media doesn’t tell us is Foxconn pays above industry average, and to the unskilled migrant workers, it’s a good job. I’d love to see the protesters try to eek out an existence in 100 year old unheated, unplumbed huts in rural China, then stay at a Foxconn dorm. Perhaps then they’ll have some sympathy for the 900 million Chinese who still live in 3rd world poverty.

A dollar an hour is low wage? Factor in Purchasing Power Parity Foxconn workers earn more than many minimum wagers in US. A hotdog is about 20 cents in China, how many McDonald’s workers make enough an hour to buy 5 hotdogs at 3 bucks a pop here?

Worker abuse? Are there no evil bosses or industrial accidents in America? Do line workers not have to pull double shift sometimes? Again our media deceives us. Did NYT disclose the fact their primary sources are disgruntled employee and US government funded dissident group paid to red-wash China? Check China Labor Watch’s financial tie with congressionally funded National Endowment for Democracy.

Suicide? Check the facts – suicide is caused by mental illness, and suicide rate at Foxconn is below China’s national average, lower than US college campus, and a fraction of US military suicide rate. What our media doesn’t tell us is the Foxconn jumpers off themselves over relationship breakup, gambling debt, life insurance benefit, not working condition.