If someone has a simple task to do and has scoured the entire globe to find people who can do this task without being pulled away from more important work, they should be praised. Paying Americans prevailing wage for this would be simpler but it would hurt both America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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megaloblasto 2 days ago | parent [-]

The implicit idea in your comment that there is no important work in low GDP countries reminds me of this quote:

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"

I think you are giving too much credit to billion dollar companies that really just want to milk as much labor from poor countries as they can.

	▲	Noumenon72 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I feel that "billion dollar companies wanting to milk as much labor from poor countries as they can" is one of the only forces in the world that will actually take the time to go out and look for African Einsteins instead of just giving the jobs to their friends and neighbors. It doesn't follow that because I said you can find people without important work in low-GDP countries, that there is no important work there. If you've ever been in one though, there are always people whose job seems to be "watching a single goat" and would be much better off training AIs to identify cats.
	▲	jpc0 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You are also assuming that those people would otherwise be doing something that would justify that. Just like a college student working at McDs to get by, the same could apply here. Cost of living is not equal. I'm not siding with either of you to be clear, just a different perspective. I feel both points are valid and without more information both are also irrefutable