My good friend has lived in China for a decade teaching English to Chinese kids. From what he’s told me about living in Shenzhen it’s not that bad. Years ago he when he first started he was working in a small rural town and that was pretty backwards compared to city life, but there’s places here in the west that aren’t much better then that either.

Point is the people working in China don’t have it as bad as a lot of media would have you believe. Sure there are horrible cases, but there are horrible cases everywhere. Remember years ago when that guy in the states went into work and shot a bunch of co-workers. It started the term “he went postal”. I remember hearing that as a younger person and thought, wow America must be a horrible place if stuff like that happens. Now is America a horrible place, or was that just a horrible incident? Chinese factories having suicide nets is pretty bad at face value, but I’ve heard equally bad reports from all over.

I type this while on my iPad, another example of high quality goods manufactured in China, in fact the USA probably doesn’t even have any manufacturing facilities capable of producing iPads in quantity like the Chinese do.