Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma...
by purpleblue on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:15PM
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Thank you for this. It's so infuriating hearing all of this social justice nonsense from people who don't know anything about actual situations. Knowing that people are paid twice the minimum wage is great and that it's not exploitation.
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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma...
by altruios on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:30PM
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The shifting meaning of the word exploitation:
Companies are 100% exploiting cheaper labor in other countries - they are only interested in the bottom line.
opportunity and exploitation are not mutuality exclusive, nor does one person's opportunity erase another's exploitation.
Creating opportunity is great: do that without exploiting people - that isn't a requirement. Praise opportunity given. Denounce exploitations not to remove opportunities - but to improve them.
Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma...
by ben_w on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:39PM
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"Exploitation" has at least two very different meanings. While I have seen some texts that used the word in the same sense for "exploiting an opportunity" and "exploiting our workers", I think most of the time the former is neutral and the latter either a scam or abuse.
Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma...
by sekai on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:51PM
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> Creating opportunity is great: do that without exploiting people - that isn't a requirement. Praise opportunity given. Denounce exploitations not to remove opportunities - but to improve them.
How much should they pay the workers though? It's already stated that they are paid well above average wage in said country.