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oh no, how dare a company pay locals who voluntarily chose to work a competitive wage in their area

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Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found (Thread) time.com/6247678/openai

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Even if it's "competitive" for them, you dont think its even slightly exploitative for a company to outsource to dirt poor locations so they can pay as little as possible?

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No, I don't. If they're offering local workers a payment option that those workers then take, presumably because it's the *best choice available to them*, then they're improving their condition and this is straightforwardly, clearly, good.

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An option's being the best among alternatives does not make it a good option. There's nothing "clearly, straightforwardly" good about per se improving one's condition. I would not think that the pharmacist who withholds all but one pill of someone's prescription did well.

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What about sweatshops?

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Well, you're wrong. They could pay a fair wage. They have the money to do so easily and ultimately wouldn't hurt profits much at all. Instead they pay a competitive wage. Just doing as little as possible and probably going to end up costing them more in the long run on hr

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Remove the word “good” and be more specific. These people are offering cheap services to help a company that is unwilling to play by the economic rules its home country has set for “the game of society”. Subverting rules designed to maintain balanced play has issues.

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Knew I liked you. People have a hard time with this one, but it seems obvious after the smallest amount of thought.

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I think this argument is true and often under appreciated. But, it should come with big disclaimers.

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I outsource my work to the hungry kenyans, because they are the only people on earth who would take that salary. US companies charge everyone abroad in standard dollars. Sure, that’s market. But they should also be paying people dollar rates.

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Foxconn workers jumping to their deaths was also a choice they made because it was the next best available alternative.

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GREAT N TRUE TWEET

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I like the thread from there to here. It's a curious mix of the name with that account which that other bloke wrote that whole ode to your non-norminess on. (no, not 'curious'; consonant) (no, the word is "it makes you out to be further recognized by me" "and liked")