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Malcom Moore, the Telegraph’s Shanghai correspondent, suggests that Foxconn has painted itself into a tragic corner with its policy of paying large settlements to the families of suicides

Even I hate to be cynical about this, but — if the reported automatic settlement is true — it makes a lot of sense, and especially in the context of this bit from earlier today:

They’re jumpers. And jumpers, my friends, are a different breed. Ask any cop or shrink who deals with this stuff. Jumpers want to make a statement. Jumpers are trying to tell you something.

They could be trying to say: “Look at this, I very clearly jumped from the factory’s roof, so you totally have to give money to my family!” It only seems unthinkable to our Western sensibilities.