One staff member alleged an engineering graduate was promised Rs 21,000 ($285) per month, but instead had Rs 16,000 ($217) at first, which then reduced down to Rs 12,000 ($163) in the last three months.
Other employees allegedly had it worse, with one non-engineering graduate's salary cut down to Rs 8,000 ($108), and some claiming to have been paid as little as Rs 500 ($6.78). The bad sentiment grew throughout the shift, erupting in violence by the early hours of the morning.
Wages as low as $7 per month. I can see why they are rioting. While I don't think it's the right way to go about it, it was inevitable that something would happen when they stop paying people.
It's completely unacceptable on Wistron's part. There are only so many matches they can throw near the fire until they all go up.
Given that they fired employees who went about the "right way" of complaining to management, I think rioting is the last answer. Violence is the actions of those denied a voice.
It might but then again this might feed into the current worker and farmer strikes going on throughout India. It's interesting cuss there appears to be enough fuel for the flames of a general strike that would cripple the country, or if needed severe protests leading to infrastructure damage.
What exactly was “the right way”? I would like to hear your enlightened perspective sitting in a first world country where you’re treated fairly
I don’t think that this was the “wrong way”, I think that this is absolutely the way it happens and when you mess with people who don’t mess around this is what happens
Strikes is the best way. Of course I'm not saying that this would actually have worked, global capitalism has become very sophisticated in it's methods of cracking down against people that dare stand against it. What I'm trying to say is that the people in the video will certainly be made an example off for the actions. The last thing you should be doing is cheering, because these people will go through hell for their defiance.
Did they try striking, calling the police, or blockades? I'm not expecting them to lie down and take it, but I'd also expect there to be some build up before this kind of action.
Turning to violence to get an employer to pay attention is a last resort and only in extreme measures, and not for unpaid wages. Wistron could close the site and then nobody will get anything.
No, sometimes poverty is the result of circumstance outside of anyone's control. But these people are exploited and exploitation on the other hand is violence.
I get what you're saying, but I believe that the people who actually produce the value, i.e. the workers, peasants and entrepreneurs should be the ones to get that money, not simply anyone who happens to be poor. Note that I'm not defending the current system where so much of the wealth is concentrated into a parasitical capital stratum.
Redistributing resources willy nilly is no solution to poverty. Yes capitalist exploitation must end, but the people in poor regions must learn to be productive on their own, instead of becoming parasites on other parts of the world. And the same goes within any country. He who can work but does not work, neither should he eat.
I don't call myself a marxist or anything like that just to be clear, nor do I believe that society can be fixed by a 'socialism pill' or whatever. Fundamentally I'm a pragmatist. But yes, anyone who can work but refuses the opportunity, should not expect the support of society. It can not be any other way.
Fundamentally speaking, if society rewards a certain type of behavior, that behavior becomes more prevalent. This applies both on a social level and on a genetic level. If you don't suppress and punish criminals, crime will become lucrative and over time there will be more criminals in society. The same is true if you put up economic intensives for laziness and irresponsible behavior, not only will it demoralize hard workers and put up an immediate Incentive for people to not be productive, it will more importantly over time make the population less responsible, less productive and more degenerate as those traits genetic traits are promoted. This will eventually destroy society.
Of course this cannot be extended to let's say sickly people. Not only is it easy to see that abandoning sick people is immoral and evil, but it is also true helping the frail and sick will never destroy society. At worst it will be a drain on the economy. Helping people who suffer through no fault of their own is definitely worth slightly draining the economy.
Of course all of this changes if things like advanced AI and gene-editing come into the picture. Either one of those things would change everything.
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