To defend it ethically, it's a bit uncomfortable to talk about chicken Dao. If one day finds that sewing on the anus of a chicken can increase profits, the company may do the same. Anyway, the chickens raised in the dark chicken coop have food and drink, so they can live a life of food and clothing.
Back to Foxconn. Foxconn is not the worst employer. It pays very high wages and is paid based on work. It does not beat or scold employees and provides them with board and lodging. From the book, the treatment is pretty good.
However, Foxconn almost imitated the method of raising chickens in dark chicken coops. They deliberately arranged staff accommodation so that their work and rest time were completely staggered, and there was almost no mental communication between people. Arrange longer overtime hours for employees so that they can concentrate on their work. Allow employees to "stretch their necks" in terms of food and lodging, without too much brain power. The factory area is completely separated from the surrounding environment, forming an independent closed social space lacking normal entertainment facilities. The purpose of this careful arrangement is very clear, allowing employees to "grow chicken" faster and better. Unexpectedly, the employees grew chicken but couldn't stand up straight, and fell down without taking two steps on their legs, so they jumped.
Foxconn is not the most sweaty, it can't even talk about blood and sweat. The problem with it was that it opened an all-dark chicken coop. The chickens in other companies’ chicken coops can’t eat enough, so blood and sweat. Foxconn’s chicken coops are raised in high-density in a dark environment. They eat and drink. Even socializing and sleeping are under the control of the company. Chickens don’t know about day and night, mental activities. The value is zero. In such an environment, it is meaningless to say blood and sweat, because Foxconn people don't refer to blood and sweat as heroes. They have no blood or sweat, just a group of blind chickens responsible for growing meat.
The so-called businessman, pursuing the maximization of interests within the legal scope is his only purpose. Since American food companies do this, Chinese foundries can do the same. If there is anything wrong with Foxconn, it is wrong to push the matter to the extreme, to be too strict, and to crush the workers mentally.
It is also a worker. Why can the workers of Guang/Ben write such energetic strike declaration, while the college students of Foxconn can only end up by jumping off the building? Obviously, Guangzhou/the factory is still not strong enough, and its mental control over workers is far inferior to Foxconn.
It's not all Foxconn's problem. In a society, if hundreds of thousands of members are allowed to live in an environment with zero spiritual value, then the society must be suffering. Looking at the world, even in a neighboring country where the main idea shines forever, this situation is unlikely to happen-the human spirit is degraded to such a low level. In our social system, people actually think that Foxconn's model is not too problematic, which is really chilling.
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