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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • paying data labelers roughly one US cent for every task they finish, which can take hours. It’s a system Kanyugi compared to “modern slavery.

    The article kinda ignores the fact that despite the horrible pay and work, it must be a much better job for these people than anything else they can get in their country because they continue to subject themselves to it. How bad are things when 1 or 2 pennies a day is the best that’s available? I don’t understand how you could live on < $1 a month in any country no matter how poor.

    Edit: I’m not saying it’s ok, I’m in no way in support of it. You guys are reading me wrong.

    I’m saying I genuinely don’t understand the math here.