Blog #31

What has stood out to me the most about the historical readings this semester were the different views of the world I have been exposed to and the new information. In the article about iPod's I was most surprised to learn about Foxconn. I already knew about sweatshops and the harsh conditions workers in other countries are put through, but to hear about Foxconn blew my mind. The fact that the building has to be surrounded in nets because of all the suicides that were occurring was absolutely insane. I had never heard of that before. If a problem is becoming so severe that nets are having to be put up to prevent suicides, something needs to be done. Putting up nets is only stopping them from being able to jump, not from being able to take their lives other ways or to do anything to prevent and help how employees are feeling. This shows me the lack or care and concern for workers in large production factories. Money and production seems to be the one thing that matters. Mass production and volume is what is needed. And it doesn't matter about how the employees are feeling. When suicides are happening they put up nets. Nets. It's appalling to me to think that that is someone's idea of a solution. But this is what I've been realizing through the readings. People care about power and money and that is what keeps the world moving.