Han Han: why Foxconn so many people jumped off the building?

I have a friend, before graduation, although there is no lofty ideals, but active and healthy, after graduation to find a job, it is hard to find, processing things for others, earn one thousand and five hundred dollars a month, from time to time overtime, overtime is sometimes paid, sometimes not paid, together can earn two thousand a month. His family is thirty kilometers away, bought a battery car, every day early in the morning and late at night, just got married, can not afford to buy a house, good in the countryside at that time built three-story buildings, they rented the first floor and the second floor to foreigners to work in the field, more than two hundred each, a **** rented out six, a month can be subsidized for one thousand and five hundred yuan, these foreigners often a family of three people live in a room, each person's income is more than eight hundred yuan, rely on walking and Cycling, work in the nearby factories, nearby factories are more polluting than the processing industry chemical industry, is our town at that time to attract investment over, most of them have closed down, did not close down a slight surplus, but if a treatment of pollution, may be a loss, a loss will not be able to pay taxes and pull GDP, so the government can not be controlled by the factory polluted river through my front door, my hometown of the village of nearly Almost every peasant house in my old village has more than twenty migrant workers living in it. The landlords of these peasant dwellings usually have a child, and almost all of them are similar to the friend I mentioned at the beginning of my article. My friend thinks he is doing quite well, at least he has married a wife, and his monthly income is used for basic survival, so he can't afford to buy anything big, and he doesn't dare to change jobs or go out on his own, because on one hand, he doesn't have social security, so he can't even afford to die if there is a problem, and on the other hand, if he cuts off his monthly income, he won't be able to go on with his life. They want to go to the town to buy a house, their own account into the town account, so that the future of the child is better, but the town of Shanghai suburbs of a set of houses at least half a million, he has to not eat and drink to work for 25 years to be able to, and is still rough housing, to decorate the good will have to starve for another five years. It's a good thing he's married and doesn't desperately need a townhouse. But his next-door neighbor, another friend of mine, just graduated from college, the salary is a little higher than my first friend, but the woman's requirements are also high, must have a house in the city in order to get married, this set of downtown second-hand husband's house house needs at least two million dollars, my friend needs to work for sixty years, or their family's home to rent to the eight families of migrant workers, rented for one hundred years in order to afford to buy a city house, and so they only expect to move to a house, but they do not have to work for twenty-five years. So their only hope is to relocate, even if the government 500,000 demolition of their house, five million to buy out the land does not matter, at least 500,000 can pay off the down payment of the house in the city, the future of the say, wife at least can marry into the door. As for the house after the demolition of the parents where to live, this is indeed a problem, perhaps three hundred dollars to rent a larger room in the other farmhouse transition for a few years before. My first friend used to work three shifts, the factory is too far away, health problems, resigned before changing the current job, looking forward to less overtime and pay raises, the boss said that next year can be increased by one hundred dollars a month, and the year after that, another one hundred dollars. He told me last week that his father might be going overseas to work as a plasterer for someone else, and that he could make two hundred thousand dollars in three years out. I asked him, what are you going to do then, and he said that's it, what else can you do. His mother is screwing in light bulbs for eight hundred a month. This family in the outskirts of Shanghai, the children more than twenty, life can look at more than fifty themselves, more than fifty father, but also to go overseas to work for two years, more than fifty mother earns about a thousand a month to subsidize the family, those foreign workers, although they find it annoying, to squeeze the surrounding factories of the work quota, and also squeezed the wages to a few hundred a month, the entire village of outsiders locals ratio of more than 10 to 1, but have to rely on them, because they rent their houses, and also bring them more than 10,000 yuan of income a year. This is the life of an average person in the suburbs of Shanghai, maybe even a decent family. This is why there are so many people in Foxconn jumping off the building, mechanical labor, hopeless future, very low salary, but went to other places with even lower salary, very high prices, in addition to eating saturated wear warm, nothing else to do, and let you have enough to eat is still being promoted by this government as a heavenly contribution to the world's human beings and achievements, but also occasionally take out the data of the ancient times to show that, you can have enough to eat have to thank the country, do you think you can have the luxury of food, but you can't do that? You can already thank the State for being able to have enough to eat, so what do you think you can expect. That friend of mine has a stressful life, but he still has friends and family, and the vast majority of young wage earners twenty kilometers away from him have families thousands of kilometers away, and families that may not be warm, and the amount of money you make is often the only standard by which Chinese families measure the value of a child in this world. This is a group that most Chinese netizens may not be familiar with, you see very few forums where current Foxconn employees tell stories about their own employees jumping off buildings and their own lives, because they don't have the time or even the ability. Outside the lights and greenery and they have nothing to do, not even the longing for love, there is no third party in this world, the reality is the biggest third party, the only time in the jump, perhaps the value of their life is reflected, that is, to be treated as a life to be mentioned and remembered, but unfortunately, now it becomes a number again. Counseling is useless. When I see our women with their arms around rich people, rich people with their arms around officials, officials with their arms around bosses, and bosses with their arms around Lin Chi-ling, how can you give me counseling? A inquire, the students are worse, there are good male students, that is, rely on the family, there are good female students, that is, married well, others are envious of you in the Foxconn social security, pay wages on time, arrange accommodation, overtime is also paid, you say you like a machine, others say they are like a bag of shit, hundreds of kilometers around, not even a realistic inspirational story, which is a lot of young people in China's life. If their salaries were increased tenfold, would no one jump off a building? As long as there is no inflation by ten times, of course no one will jump off the building again. Of course, the bosses won't do that, and even if the bosses did, they would be ordered by the government to stop them. The reason why our politicians are able to stand up on the world's political stage, and have a few political gambits, a few political maneuvers, is because you, every single one of you cheap laborers, you are China's bargaining chips, the hostages of GDP. In the next ten years, these are unresolved, how sad, should be in the heart of the hot blood, it coated on the ground.