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The real question is does North Korean let their animators work remote in a LOCL area.

hawkice 2y ago
Not sure "cost of living" exists in NK the same way it does in the rest of the world.
beaeglebeachh 2y ago
Honestly if N Korea had a cheap/low-barrier remote visa it might be attractive. I would imagine having an oppressive authoritarian regime looking at you as a prime tax slave might mean none of the prols would risk getting their head chopped off to mess with you. Meanwhile labor/rent/food gotta be hella cheap.
- bobthepanda 2y ago
  North Korea is no stranger to famine, so if you want food it's probably not the best place to go. Even for tourists who they are trying to extract lots of hard currency from, the food quality is notoriously poor.
  - josephstalinOk 2y ago
    What a strange thing to say. No country is stranger to famines. Nowadays the country has a normal and modern economy.
- RajT88 2y ago
  Let's game it out. You go there to work remotely. Food/labor/rest are super cheap. Everyone is starving to death there, to the point where meth is casually used by most people to stave off hunger pangs. Not to mention, if they decide they may just get some fun leverage out of a foreign hostage, they may just decide to claim you committed a crime and beat you half (or 3/4's) to death. This is just the news stories I can recall off the top of my head as well...
  - josephstalinOk 2y ago
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  - booleandilemma 2y ago
    Do you really believe that everyone over there is starving?
    - RajT88 2y ago
      Not everyone all the time of course. There would just be barren earth instead of a country. The food supply is prioritized for the military. Food insecurity is frequent for civilians. A pattern we have seen play out many times: NK makes a threat of some sort. The West and its allies try to talk them down. As part of negotiations they demand food. Sometimes they get it. If a nation demanding food not to blow up its neighbor is not dealing with food insecurity in its society at large I will eat my hat.
- otikik 2y ago
  Wow you might want to document yourself a little bit.
- ch4s3 2y ago
  North Korea doesn't have a great history with respect to foreign "guests"[1]. Here's a choice quote: >The four lived together in a two-bedroom house outside of Pyongyang, where they were forced to study the writings of then-leader Kim Il Sung and were subject to regular beatings. They were also featured prominently in propaganda magazines and movies. [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188656665/travis-king-north-korea-soldier-history https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188656665/travis-king-north-...
  - beaeglebeachh 2y ago
    Totally agree, but I'll point out they entered as technically enemy combatants, not with a visa. And dresnok said the opposite and retired fat and with alcohol cirrhotic liver and a nice stolen wife and downtown apartment, which is far more than he would've got in USA as such a lazy, stupid, criminal that he was. He even become a local celebrity as a movie star playing as a white devil.
    - ch4s3 2y ago
      It’s not like people are regularly entering as anything other than defectors and the one guys wife said she was tricked into going there and held against her will.
      - beaeglebeachh 2y ago
        Yes "stolen" wife. Great for dresnok as his worst fear was broken homes (he came from one and experienced divorce) so the held against will was a huge selling point for him. From watching docs in his final days I sincerely believe the stolen wife who couldn't divorce was his biggest selling point in staying.
- hobs 2y ago
  Most North Koreans face starvation on a regular basis, and being excited about the prospect of having a cowed population that serves you is either sociopathic or psychopathic, or both. Seek some help. All of that being said that when those in power think you made a single mistake, you're dead.
- krisoft 2y ago
  Hard to look at the Otto Warmbier story and say “hey, you know what? I wish i could also be there”
  - beaeglebeachh 2y ago
    I see it as a much worse version of Dubai. The economic arbitrage version of fishing for king crab in a lethal bering Sea. Not saying I'd do it. But it might be attractive to the right person.
- numpad0 2y ago
  I kind of see the idea but... I don't think it's worth the risk. Authority figures in dictatorships just aren't always rational. They're by definition not capitalists anyway.
gwbas1c 2y ago
The economics of where you live are very different in a communist (Or whatever NK calls itself now) state. I would assume that the people with these jobs don't have an American-style commute.

Not sure "cost of living" exists in NK the same way it does in the rest of the world.

Honestly if N Korea had a cheap/low-barrier remote visa it might be attractive. I would imagine having an oppressive authoritarian regime looking at you as a prime tax slave might mean none of the prols would risk getting their head chopped off to mess with you. Meanwhile labor/rent/food gotta be hella cheap.

bobthepanda 2y ago
North Korea is no stranger to famine, so if you want food it's probably not the best place to go. Even for tourists who they are trying to extract lots of hard currency from, the food quality is notoriously poor.
- josephstalinOk 2y ago
  What a strange thing to say. No country is stranger to famines. Nowadays the country has a normal and modern economy.
RajT88 2y ago
Let's game it out. You go there to work remotely. Food/labor/rest are super cheap. Everyone is starving to death there, to the point where meth is casually used by most people to stave off hunger pangs. Not to mention, if they decide they may just get some fun leverage out of a foreign hostage, they may just decide to claim you committed a crime and beat you half (or 3/4's) to death. This is just the news stories I can recall off the top of my head as well...
- josephstalinOk 2y ago
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- booleandilemma 2y ago
  Do you really believe that everyone over there is starving?
  - RajT88 2y ago
    Not everyone all the time of course. There would just be barren earth instead of a country. The food supply is prioritized for the military. Food insecurity is frequent for civilians. A pattern we have seen play out many times: NK makes a threat of some sort. The West and its allies try to talk them down. As part of negotiations they demand food. Sometimes they get it. If a nation demanding food not to blow up its neighbor is not dealing with food insecurity in its society at large I will eat my hat.
otikik 2y ago
Wow you might want to document yourself a little bit.
ch4s3 2y ago
North Korea doesn't have a great history with respect to foreign "guests"[1]. Here's a choice quote: >The four lived together in a two-bedroom house outside of Pyongyang, where they were forced to study the writings of then-leader Kim Il Sung and were subject to regular beatings. They were also featured prominently in propaganda magazines and movies. [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188656665/travis-king-north-korea-soldier-history https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188656665/travis-king-north-...
- beaeglebeachh 2y ago
  Totally agree, but I'll point out they entered as technically enemy combatants, not with a visa. And dresnok said the opposite and retired fat and with alcohol cirrhotic liver and a nice stolen wife and downtown apartment, which is far more than he would've got in USA as such a lazy, stupid, criminal that he was. He even become a local celebrity as a movie star playing as a white devil.
  - ch4s3 2y ago
    It’s not like people are regularly entering as anything other than defectors and the one guys wife said she was tricked into going there and held against her will.
    - beaeglebeachh 2y ago
      Yes "stolen" wife. Great for dresnok as his worst fear was broken homes (he came from one and experienced divorce) so the held against will was a huge selling point for him. From watching docs in his final days I sincerely believe the stolen wife who couldn't divorce was his biggest selling point in staying.
hobs 2y ago
Most North Koreans face starvation on a regular basis, and being excited about the prospect of having a cowed population that serves you is either sociopathic or psychopathic, or both. Seek some help. All of that being said that when those in power think you made a single mistake, you're dead.
krisoft 2y ago
Hard to look at the Otto Warmbier story and say “hey, you know what? I wish i could also be there”
- beaeglebeachh 2y ago
  I see it as a much worse version of Dubai. The economic arbitrage version of fishing for king crab in a lethal bering Sea. Not saying I'd do it. But it might be attractive to the right person.
numpad0 2y ago
I kind of see the idea but... I don't think it's worth the risk. Authority figures in dictatorships just aren't always rational. They're by definition not capitalists anyway.

gwbas1c 2y ago

The economics of where you live are very different in a communist (Or whatever NK calls itself now) state. I would assume that the people with these jobs don't have an American-style commute.