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Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Working as a graphic designer in the US since the early 2000's, every employer I ever worked for eventually used Fiverr to pay someone overseas a fraction of what they paid me to do the same work. This doesn't seem meaningfully different.

Not saying this is okay, just that it's not even remotely (no pun intended) a new problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This whole thing is a to send a message to begin with as with AI, actually more so.

Most of the "AI job losses" are this sort of offshoring actually... Joke is on the wage slaves.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is pure Astronaut meme with “wait, AI is just 3rd world wage slaves?”