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But why do you think people in developing countries deserve to be compensated less than others for the same work? I don't care if their alternative is a worse
by pietrovismara 6y ago
But why do you think people in developing countries deserve to be compensated less than others for the same work?
I don't care if their alternative is a worse job, I'm asking why you, citizen of a first world country who lives daily on more than they live on average in a month, should feel ok paying them miserable wages for work that in your country would be paid 10x. Especially when the return you get is exactly the same, as you sell your product in a first world country by first world prices.
- willcipriano 6y agoI've considered the same question myself. The global per capita median income is a little under 3k USD. If you wanted to make global income inequality better you'd probably start by making the west dramatically poorer.
- pietrovismara 6y agoWe can start by stopping exploitation of poverty. Pay western rates on everything you buy from poor countries. It's time companies learn to find their competitive edge outside of employee exploitation.
- zajio1am 6y agoWhy do you think that compensation should have anything to do with 'deserve'? There is no 'deserving' value for work, it is just about balancing demand and supply for work. The only realistic way to raise average wage is to saturate supply of work by providing enough demand. It is possible to outsource work tho third countries for less money, why everybody does not do that and there are still work in developed countries? Because it has some costs that may or may not be apparent. Therefore if you require to pay the same wage, you discourage anybody to give work to people in developing countries.
- vinceguidry 6y agoTo repeat your point, market economics are the worst, except for every other kind of economics.
- pietrovismara 6y agoExcept usually developing countries are "behind" thanks to western exploitation. It is really delusional to think that you're helping them by giving them underpaid work, while you're just really repeating the pattern that caused their poverty.
- harperlee 6y agoBut at an individual level, the alternative of not outsourcing is worse for the person that would receive the wage. At a macro level, I’d also like to point at the China - US outsourcing story, and how it’s going regarding hollowing out of industries, IP and know-how transfer, and plain old money transfer. It’s not going too bad for China for the moment...
- pietrovismara 6y agoAll thanks to China's economic policy. They managed to suck out the wealth of the west for years, something they could do because they were and are in a privileged position. It is not the same for many other developed countries. In fact if you don't consider China, since 1981 we have 1 billion more poor people in the world.
- harperlee 6y agoThey were in the privileged position of earning very little, right? That’s my whole point!
- pietrovismara 6y agoNo. Earning very little alone means nothing. Some countries with cheap labor have developed, others have not.
- loco5niner 6y ago> thanks to western exploitation I can believe the exploitation part. There is certainly corruption everywhere which is often part of the cause. But citation needed for the western part please.
- loco5niner 6y agoIf you are so concerned about this you could start sending them 50% of your paycheck every month.
- pietrovismara 6y agoOr you could stop exploting them. Points of view.