by Charlie Smith on January 27th, 2021 at 7:13 AM
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Most people don’t think much about how their electronic devices are created. Somewhere in a factory in a faraway land, a worker is toiling to create a cellphone, a laptop, or a television set.
But every once in a while, something dramatic occurs to force this issue into the consciousness of people living in the West. Like in 2010, when there were 10 suicide deaths at Foxconn’s operations in Shenzhen in China’s Guangdong province. Nearly every one of them threw themselves off a building, generating media coverage around the world.