Let me complain about how I'm being exploited at my job while voluntarily choosing said job over literally every other job available to me.

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swiftcoder 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Please do enumerate these other jobs that are available to the Filipino currently performing this job for... checks notes... $2/hour?

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mhb 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Please say what you think the hourly average wage is in the Philippines and how you conclude that this isn't the woman's best option despite her revealed preference that it is.

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swiftcoder 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think you and I are disagreeing here? The article explicitly states that she only took this work because she couldn't find other work, and that she dislikes the work intensely (... but has no better job prospects)

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swarnie 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> As of early 2026, the minimum wage in the Philippines is set daily rather than hourly and varies by region, with a common daily minimum of approximately 695 PHP in some sectors, often equating to less than $2 USD per hour

Pretty much any Wagie job?

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mmooss 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's how exploitation works: The exploited don't have another choice. That doesn't make doing cruel things to them wrong and (hopefully) illegal.

For example, someone could compel people who are starving to do all sorts of horrible things for food, and then say 'well, they chose to do it!'.

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mhb 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Once you make this job illegal, what do you think she does then for a job? By taking this job she has revealed that this is her best option. When you make the job illegal, you're forcing her to take a worse alternative.

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dangus 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is true, but I also think that the information in the article alone is insufficient to make a judgment.

This salary is over the Philippines minimum wage. It's a legal job like any other.

The people interviewed are not super happy about the content of the job, but none of it seems to be anything more than it being pornography-related.

Nobody's really seeming to cross any lines of illegality as described in the article. This doesn't come close to the kind of conditions faced by Meta's contractors in Africa spying through Meta glasses in private homes.

I would equate this type of job to any type of job that has aspects that some people would never be willing to do.

E.g., I would never be willing to be a window washer. I'm too scared of heights. Same deal with tower construction. But there are plenty of people doing those jobs who don't feel exploited.

The plus side of jobs like this are that you can do this work at home, you can be physically disabled, there's often some level of flexibility of hours, and there's no manual labor.

I'm going to guess that the only scandal here is that the Philippines is 80% Catholic and possibly more conservative than people in the countries where OnlyFans generates its income.

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layer8 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What crosses the line is that, as stated in the article, the job is a dishonest scam towards the clients.

	▲	mhb 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		OK. But that isn't the main point of this article. It's only an incidental fact in the description of "how "heartbreaking" it is to get less than $2 per hour...". It doesn't sound as if the woman would be heartbroken at all if she was getting paid $20 per hour.