If OpenAI is rich enough to pay $15/h to Americans, rather than $2/h to Kenyans, that is a good thing. Data labelling is a gentler job than the other entry-level white collar job: call centers.

I don't know how long manual labelling will last, but as AI explodes and every AI company hires legions of labelers, that could provide employment for the call center workers who will be displaced by AI.