Foxconn Boss Likens Workers to Animals

[Kantastic]

Out of context? The context is covered in the article. It was quite clearly meant it as he said it. He really doesn't think much of his workers, and he really likens them to lowly animals. Why would you even feel the need to defend that? This isn't that super nice guy in your community suddenly being accused of murder, it's the head of Foxconn. Big effin' surprise.

So if you employ a million people, you're going to care about all of them as friends and family? I can bet you don't even speak to 90% of your "friends" on Facebook on a daily basis, so why are you expecting more from one man trying to oversee a million others whom he has absolutely no personal affiliation with other than an employer-employee business relationship? Even that's an overstatement, because as CEO, he delegates to his underlings who are still too high up in the chain of command to have any involvement with the bottom-most labor force.

Business is business. If the FC workers don't like the wages or the hours, quit. I'd like to see the CEO of FC lose a night's sleep after the workers actually carry out their mass suicide.

 

[pr0n Inspector]

But humans are animals. Why are you all acting insulted?

Well this is what happens when you have CHINA a communist country run the worlds manufacturing ! Great job America not only have we outsourced every tech job there is but we gave them to China of all places ! Time to insource .

China is easily a hundred times more capitalistic than the United States. It's a land where money is almost everything and can do almost anything. So American, right?

 

[digibucc]

don't mind trickson, he's just speaking out of ignorance (rare, right?)

 

[Suhidu]

I'd liken at least a few of you to animals.

 

[pr0n Inspector]

I'd liken at least a few of you to animals.

You can't liken homo sapiens to animals. We are all animals.

 

[jlin101]

I don't believe Gou's comment was taken out of context; it simply reflects his, and Chinese elite's, mentality that common people are no more than insects like ants that exist only to serve the master; and that people can be easily coerced or trained to perform tricks like animals. One good example is Gou's involvement in Taiwan's recent presidential/legislatoral election; he blatantly threatend to withhold future investments in Taiwan unless KMT's candidates won the election. I don't see Bill Gates jetting around the country, threatening to move Microsoft overseas if a certain candidate doesn't win the election.

 

[largon]

Well, isn't that what the people think, too? Hint being their government.

Disclaimer:
I'm a bit on the pointy side this morning.

P.S.
I have an old biology book(let) from the 60's titled:
"Animal Studies - Part II - Human"