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Except the remote house keeper can be in some super locl 3rd world country where the prevailing wage is a few bucks a day.
by TylerE 9mo ago
Except the remote house keeper can be in some super locl 3rd world country where the prevailing wage is a few bucks a day.
- duskwuff 9mo agoThat's a pretty profoundly dystopian concept. If the only way this technology is viable is as a way to exploit labor at a distance - count me out.
- TylerE 9mo agoWe're living in a dystopia.
- decimalenough 9mo agoThe person in a third world country is not a slave, they're doing the job for a few bucks a day because it's still better than other options available to them.
- XorNot 9mo agoThat's not necessarily exploitation: a worker in another country paid a far lower rate in absolute terms may in local terms be earning good money. If that job is "monitor the remote robots from a desk" then that's likely also a fairly good job.
- api 9mo agoThere's an indie sci-fi film called Sleep Dealer about this. It's not bad.
- Saline9515 9mo agoWhat is the difference between being a teleoperator in India for a californian family robot, and being a software dev for a company selling SaaS products to the US market?
- mrguyorama 9mo agoThis is the reality now. It is the entire point of globalized labor. Global trade right now is literally about exploiting labor at a distance. Our shit didn't get made in China because they were inherently better at making shit!