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There are nets on bridges and other places in the US, too.

Also I don't think the suicide rate of those workers you are referring to is higher than the general population. There are simply lots of workers. For example, Foxconn has more than 1 million employees so it is normal that there would be some level of suicide within such a large population.



We have millions of people here, suicide rates are not that high, and no nets. So what is your argument exactly?


The US? Your suicide rates are higher, and you do have nets[0].

In their worst year, Foxconn had 15 suicides from 930,000 people for a rate of 1.6 per 100k[1].

The US region with the current lowest rate is the District of Columbia, at 6.1 per 100k; the US national average in Foxconn's worst year was about 13 per 100k[2].

Today, the USA national average ranks them #31 highest in the world with a rate of 14.5 per 100k, while China's national average of 6.7 per 100 is close to your best region (DC) and ranks them #122 (higher rank number means lower rate)[3].

Foxconn, in that year, had a workforce about the same size as the total population of South Dakota. South Dakota in that year had a suicide count of 139 [4].

[0] https://www.goldengate.org/district/district-projects/suicid...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#/...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

[4] Page 5: https://sprc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/South-Dakota-Sui...


Did you actually compare suicide rates to China in general? Something tells me you didn't.




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