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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by abdullahkhalids on Sunday December 22, 2024 @04:09PM (#42489127)
Some products have factories in multiple countries. For example, Teslas are produced in both US and China. The cars produced in both countries are more or less identical in quality. But do you ever see that the market price of the product is different depending on the country of manufacture?

If the moderators in Kenya are providing the same quality labor as those from the US, why the difference in price of their labor?

I have a friend who worked for FAANG and had to temporarily move from US to Canada due to visa issues, while continuing to work for the same team. They were paid less in Canada. There is no justification for this except that the company has price setting power and uses it to exploit the sellers of labor.

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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by azinman2 on Sunday December 22, 2024 @04:24PM (#42489240)
A million things factor into market dynamics. I don’t know why this is such a shocking or foreign concept. Why is a waitress in Alabama paid less than in San Francisco for the same work? It’s a silly question because the answers are both obvious and complex.
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by BehindBlueEyes on Friday December 27, 2024 @11:16AM (#42523388)
The obvious answer being that corporations want to maximize profit from cheaper labor by extracting the same value at the lowest possible cost? Just because location has historically been the determining factor doesn't mean it has to continue this way though. I don't know why it is such a shocking or foreign concept that people would prefer to be paid according to the value they produce.
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