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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by eloff on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:31AM (#34427872)
It’s a necessary stepping stone on the path to better working conditions and wages. I think people forget what the early days of the Industrial Revolution looked like in our countries.

Can you get there without that? Likely not.

What you’re suggesting is to actually keep them poor for their own good. It’s a nonsensical and counterproductive argument that your making.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by replwoacause on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:38AM (#34427983)
Not exactly. I'm suggesting that work like this be paid at a fair rate and mental health precautions are considered and taken seriously.

You can chop logic on this all day long if you like, but the point is, this work is terrible and damaging, and that's why we farm it out to countries like Kenya where the people there don't have a choice.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by eloff on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:46AM (#34429130)
The work is better than the options people have there, otherwise they wouldn’t do it. Don’t try to spin it as a negative thing for them. They don’t see it that way.
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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by blagie on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:53AM (#34429250)
People in Kenya do have a choice, and they pick the best choice for themselves and for their families.

The set of choices for people earning $2/day is different than $20 or $200, but not smaller.

Your aggression is better targeted towards manufacturing jobs in parts of Asia, or Walmart workers in the rural US, than to this context.

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by PeterisP on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:16PM (#34429608)
Kenyans are able to win this business because they can do this job at a competitive price. If Kenyans would require more, they would not get this (relatively good compared to their alternatives) job, it would go someplace else and Kenyans would lose out.
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