taintpaint

taintpaint t1_j6nf44j wrote

Reply to comment by spyson in If you’re enjoying The Last of Us… by Just_Browsing_2017

I really liked Station Eleven but the number of posts I see here that make it sound like some kind of cult sleeper hit instead of a massive popular and critical success is very weird. I don't know who these posts are even aimed at. Everyone knows what that show was and almost everyone has already seen it.

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taintpaint t1_iwzavic wrote

Reply to comment by zanderkerbal in TIL in response to infamously high suicide rates at Mapo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, the bridge was adorned with suicide prevention messages and uplifting photos. These measures weren't enacted by the government, however, instead the entire project was financed by Samsung's life insurance division by evilclownattack

>It's still statistically speaking probably true that a significant number of these suicides are Samsung employees, though, given that the bridge is located in South Korea and Samsung is by far the largest company in South Korea.

Okay well I guess to me it just sounds unreasonable to think that this means that they're so responsible for all Koreans' well being that any good thing they do can be criticized as "not even the bare minimum" unless they pretty much solve the problem.

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taintpaint t1_iwxfnzi wrote

Reply to comment by zanderkerbal in TIL in response to infamously high suicide rates at Mapo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, the bridge was adorned with suicide prevention messages and uplifting photos. These measures weren't enacted by the government, however, instead the entire project was financed by Samsung's life insurance division by evilclownattack

Just curious - where are you getting the idea that these are Samsung employees committing suicide en masse? The article just says it was a common suicide spot.

>Samsung's life insurance division put these photos on the bridge. This means Samsung's life insurance division was paying out to a lot of these suicides. This means that a lot of the suicides were Samsung employees.

I think you're misunderstanding what this article meant. It's the division of Samsung that sells life insurance, not the division that handles life insurance for its employees.

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taintpaint t1_iwx3kco wrote

Reply to comment by zanderkerbal in TIL in response to infamously high suicide rates at Mapo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, the bridge was adorned with suicide prevention messages and uplifting photos. These measures weren't enacted by the government, however, instead the entire project was financed by Samsung's life insurance division by evilclownattack

Lol so your big issue here is that they didn't actually solve the entire problem of suicide? Is that an expectation you would've had for Samsung before you heard this story? Or can a corporation only do a good thing if that thing completely solves some huge societal problem forever?

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taintpaint t1_iwwpt55 wrote

Reply to comment by Mynewadventures in TIL in response to infamously high suicide rates at Mapo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, the bridge was adorned with suicide prevention messages and uplifting photos. These measures weren't enacted by the government, however, instead the entire project was financed by Samsung's life insurance division by evilclownattack

I remember once when I was a really little kid in the car with my dad and he stopped at a stop sign and I asked "Dad, how does the police officer know if you stopped because you actually wanted to stop and not just because you didn't wanna get in trouble?" And he laughed and said "the police don't care why I stopped. They only care that I stopped."

Comments like this sometimes feel like they're coming from me as that little kid. I don't know why you care about whether Samsung really loves you deep down in their hearts. If their incentives are aligned such that they end up doing something good, that's a success of the system.

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