It is an issue. They hire African workers because they can exploit them perhaps 3x or more than Western workers. For every unit of revenue they extract, they ca

It is an issue. They hire African workers because they can exploit them perhaps 3x or more than Western workers. For every unit of revenue they extract, they can pay the African workers 2/3 less let's say. Low cost of living means nothing when it also comes with low standard of living, caused by globalist exploitation in the first place. The globalist capitalists simply exploit the poverty of the final market to retain more of the revenue. They could try to exploit Western workers as mechanical Turks but their strategy would then fail. The strategy succeeds because the rate of exploitation of workers in impoverished countries - in terms of actual share of the real dollars produced - is much higher in the global South than the global West. Worse we're now all guilty and complicit, in using LLMs, and even in using open source llms train second hand on the unethically sourced llms. We will have to pay reparations. By making a false equivalence between the two worker classes, you potentially support the continued existence of the globalist hyper exploitation strategy, and prevent Justice for AI workers. You can speak out against it instead, act against companies who use it, and move towards understanding what reparations might entail. I think the exploitation of low-paid mechanical Turk style laborers is a real problem and we need to talk about it, rather than background it just because workers in the global West are exploited as well. True global worker solidarity means seeing this as a place where the iron is very hot and ready for striking. Finally, the scarcity of jobs in Africa is not a problem being seriously discussed here. It's being used as a red herring to justify exploitive investment.