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Re:oDesk to merge with Elance by brc on Thursday December 19, 2013 @06:25AM (#6933976)
If you really want to destroy someone's day in a low cost country, campaign to stop this type of work getting to them. Then they will be out of a job.

To several billion people, working for $20/day in their local lives using a computer would be a dream job. Someone who is employed is making money for their family and probably feels good about themselves.

Re:oDesk to merge with Elance by krapp on Thursday December 19, 2013 @11:25AM (#6935594)
I don't want to stop work getting to them. I want them to be paid more so my own relatively paltry rates don't seem like an insult to employers expecting to pay pennies per hour for a fully working whatever clone.

Otherwise the next step in that poor country is, inevitably, the work moves somewhere cheaper still or gets automated.