So I've been reading some of the comments on various articles regarding PS4/XBO reliability issues, and I was just thinking. Instead of trolling, bashing on others for having a broken system which isn't manufactered by the same brand you like. Why not encourage these people to complain to MS/Sony?

Also I don't been complain that the systems are breaking, I mean complain that even though they are rushing these consoles out, that they won't pay the people who make the consoles a fair wage. There is a rumor going around that PS4's 1% reliability issue is actually the result of workers sabotaging systems as a from of protest for low wages and poor working environments.

Currently, the average employee at Foxconn (Producer of most electronics) makes <$10 a day, in a country were $18 a day is the average pay. On top of that the suicide rate at a Foxconn factory is the same as North American Colleges (which is pretty high).

Now Manufacterers get a say in how much employee's make, and which factories manufacture the consoles. Nintendo for instance only uses Foxconn factories which can guarentee a 0.2% or lower fail rate, and they also pay their employees above the average income. Apple on the other hand pays employees rates which match the average Foxconn rate, not the average Chinese income rate.

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So before you go buy a next gen system, or complain about the shitty reliability. Ask yourself, why is this happening? For an extra $5 loss per console sold, MS and Sony can make sure their employees get paid well, above the average for the place of production, yet they don't. Not to glorify Nintendo, but this is one reason why I always give them another chance, they care about who makes their products, even if it's only to return high reliability numbers.

Below is a link to an article talking about PS4's 1% fail rate as the result of Sabotage at Foxconn.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/18/sonys-ps4-hardware-failures-could-be-foxconns-faul.aspx

Immediately after the technical problems about the PS4 surfaced, all eyes turned to Foxconn, the Taiwanese contracts manufacturing giant that has been repeatedly accused of worker abuses in China and poor quality control.

A Foxconn intern claimed that the PS4 was intentionally sabotaged during the manufacturing process to protest the poor working conditions at its plants. That damaging accusation, although unverified by Sony or Foxconn, highlights a key question that Sony and other multinational tech giants have been asking themselves over the past few years -- is it wise to rely on Foxconn's plants to manufacture such major products, which also include the iPhone, iPad, Kindle, and Wii U, for the sake of higher margins?

In October, university students in Xi'an were sent to Foxconn on a mandatory "internship" to help manufacture the Playstation 4 for two months to receive their diplomas. The students were paid $263 per month, the same rate as the local factory workers -- in a region where the average monthly salary is $570. Last April, the company was accused of using student interns -- some as young as 16 -- to assemble Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) products.

Therefore, it's not hard to see why unhappy Foxconn interns, being paid less than half the average local wage, would sabotage Sony's crown jewel in a bid to embarrass the company.

Apple has expressed concerns about Foxconn on multiple occasions, auditing the company twice, in 2007 and 2012, to investigate claims of poor working conditions.

In China, 18 Foxconn employees attempted suicide in 2010, resulting in 14 deaths, and in Mexico, disgruntled employees set fire to a factory that same year. In April, Apple rejected nearly 8 million iPhones from Foxconn, due to quality control problems.

It's easy to pin the problems on Foxconn, but the company is being squeezed on both ends by rising demand for cheaper consumer electronics and the rising costs of living in China, where it operates 13 factories in nine cities.

Last quarter, Foxconn's gross margin fell 6.1% year-over-year to 7.07% -- indicating that protests over labor and quality control problems might continue for the foreseeable future.