There is such an industry that is making wedding clothes for others; There is such a young man who is struggling in despair.
The psychological conduction of Foxconn jumping off a building has occurred. So far, 14 and 15 hops have been proved to be true. Whether the rumor is true or not, this tragedy is heavy enough. It is said that Foxconn, an international chemical plant that queued up to apply for the OEM of the world's top 500 enterprises, chose to climb one after another. Why is there such a tragedy?
There are two groups of young people here. A group of college students are just like me. They live in ivory towers, accompanied by libraries, lakes and mountains. The other group works in a factory, where there are steel machines, huge containers and countless complex and sophisticated production links. They produce the top electronic products in the world, but accumulate wealth at the slowest speed. Confusion, entanglement and even anger make people inevitably ask, what happened to Foxconn, a Fortune 500 company? What kind of work and life do young people around the age of 20 face? What is Foxconn's so-called "semi-militarized management"?
Judging from the information currently available, Foxconn, as the world's largest foundry and a company trying to seek greater development in the mainland, is by no means a notorious "sweatshop" among similar companies; Even if the reporter of Southern Weekend broke into Foxconn undercover as a "general worker", he didn't find anything amazing. It is precisely because the usual causal law can not find out the cause of the incident that similar incidents continue to occur, so that the company's top management has to invite Wutaishan monks to do things.
It is from the "piety" of the company's helplessness to ask the monks to do things that many enterprises feel at ease to extend their working hours in exchange for maximizing their interests. This cruel labor system, which seriously deviates from humanized management, has become the knowledge of many enterprises in pursuing interests and has become "legal" and accepted by workers. This comes from the awareness that people generally think that only working overtime can get survival needs. To meet the living needs of workers, we can only get it through overwork. Therefore, every Foxconn worker must sign a "voluntary overtime cut-off book" with the company. However, this "voluntary termination of overtime" does not have much "voluntary" content. The result of signing this "voluntary overtime termination" is not to get extra pay on the premise of meeting the living security, but to give up the right or choice of survival.
What is puzzling is that such employment status and labor management are not Foxconn's "unique family law", and they are even more heard. Don't talk about black coal mines and black brick kilns. As far as garment processing enterprises are concerned, it is not called a garment factory if they don't work at night. Many idle social youths and rural surplus laborers regard "more work and more pay" in garment factories as the best choice to get higher pay. Everyone knows that "overwork" refers to overtime. For many enterprises, such exploitation has become a routine, and those who want to survive have completely given up power. Such low operating costs have earned us the title of "manufacturing power". In this sense, Foxconn cannot be a special case.
Then, why only Foxconn has the amazing event of "nine consecutive jumps"? That is, it faces a group of young people who still have dreams and are not completely numb. Reality can erase their ability to maintain power, but it cannot stop them from pursuing their ideals and thinking about the meaning of life. And these should belong to everyone. Judging from a series of jumping events, we can't know everyone's individual factors at present, but the similarity in age can explain some problems. The people involved in the incident are all in their teens and twenties, and entering an enterprise like Foxconn should also have a certain cultural foundation. This is a generation with dreams, which is different from their parents who are only satisfied with earning wages to support their families. This generation will associate work with happiness, that is, compare the ability to work hard and live, and perhaps pursue happiness in the process of labor. As long as people return to their due social values, such a requirement is the most basic. However, when modern enterprises regard people as intelligent machines, these "intelligent machines" are forced to maximize their potential and ignore their spiritual needs as human beings. The shrinking space of social activities and the indifference of interpersonal relationships are destroying the fragile nerves of these young people. Compared with their original intention of entering the society to realize their ideals, the disappointment brought by setbacks is enough to push them into the quagmire of inferiority.
Indulging in the pursuit of profit maximization, the management of enterprises will certainly not realize the crux of the problem, because they regard employees as money-making machines, divorced from the humanized management system, and at the same time domesticate thoughtful workers into cold machines. The problem is that not all flesh and blood can withstand such destruction. "Sweatshop" often wears a more decent coat than "Shanxi black brick kiln", but it can't change the ugly side of capital immorality and eliminate hidden dangers that seriously endanger employees' rights and interests and life safety. For an enterprise like Foxconn, in addition to its huge capital strength, it is easy to win the protection of power because it has brought strong GDP achievements to some places. This kind of capital can easily become unscrupulous in the process of operation. A few years ago, the case of Foxconn suing journalists shocked the world. Regrettably, the game with capital violence is currently deadlocked. On the one hand, the status of labor and capital is extremely unequal, and citizens simply do not have the minimum ability to defend their rights; On the other hand, it is difficult for public power with high hopes to get rid of the preference for "GDP" in political achievements, but to be immersed in excessive infatuation with capital. In this case, it is difficult to expect the law to stop the immoral violent iron fist of capital and avoid breeding more social crises. As a result, all kinds of unbearable tragedies will occur in the labor-capital game.
The virtue of heaven and earth is innate. Why do workers choose a dead end? Foxconn didn't understand it at all. Also, they will not give deep and heartfelt attention to the feelings of employee A and employee B at all. The so-called "living" is both survival and life. According to Maslow's demand theory, people have physiological needs, security needs, emotional and belonging needs, respect needs and self-realization needs, and I'm afraid none of these needs can really be met. Mechanized work is not creative at all, and talking about self-realization is a bit extravagant; Grass-roots managers often scold workers, and respect is far from enough; Workers basically have no social activities in the factory, and all the people who live in a dormitory are strangers, and their feelings have no belonging; High-intensity standing labor, machine injury is common and unsafe; As for physiological needs, I'm afraid you can't get enough sleep by constantly working overtime. In this case, if you can't see the meaning of life, if you exist like a machine, you will think like a machine. As a female jumper claimed in early April, "the pressure of work and the long working hours made her very upset", so jumping off a building became a way for a "machine" to stop itself.
Therefore, the problems that Foxconn should learn from and pay attention to are of great significance to the whole society, just like campus murders, which cannot be regarded as individual cases. Just because a few people express their despair of life or hatred of society by extreme behavior does not mean that only these people bear the burden of life. If we compare people to machines again, it is that their fuses are a little thin, but they are thick or have no fuses at all. They also live under unbearable burdens. Don't see the seriousness of the problem just because of "continuous events".
"Made in China" all over the world is the pride of China and the amazing contribution made by China workers from rural areas. They are like "migratory birds" shuttling between the urban and rural areas of China, making the city long and the new roads extend into the distance; They let China's GDP jump year after year; They stubbornly fought against the invincible global financial crisis, making China stand firm and become the hope of global economic recovery ... They are party flag's "sickle and hammer", China's * * * production party, and "migrant workers" who have been silently bending down to become the ruling foundation of the Republic of China.
However, if it weren't for extreme events such as "nine consecutive jumps" and "asking for salary at the end of the year", people living in peace rarely pay attention to this group. Away from their families, with a meager salary, doing the hardest and most tiring work, no relatives and friends, no sports and entertainment, no continuing education, these young migrant workers, who are also young and eager for normal communication, live in a modern society with open information. What kind of trance and pain will they have in those "screw"-like posts that lack people's concern?
Chaplin's Modern Times once made us understand the alienation of the assembly line in the industrial age through laughter. At that time, we thought that this terrible alienation was an old creation on the other side. Now, some of our enterprises have also entered the strange circle of "modernity". In this sense, changing the mode of economic growth and ending the blind worship of the "top 500 rich people" is the greatest "people-oriented" and the most basic work to stabilize the "sickle and hammer" ...