Also billionaires: We’ll use foreigners to train the AI so we can pay next to nothing for our models.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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    175 days ago

    I’m moving my factories overseas to give your jobs to foreigners because you won’t let me pay you basically nothing

    I think it’s worth tagging on that a lot of these countries have huge cost-of-living subsidies and public works, designed to reduce the base cost of living for individual residents. Yes, the pay is shit. But also things like rent and energy and $/calorie are way lower than what you’ll find in an equivalent American city.

    That’s one reason why Americans who live abroad can live so well. An expat in Korea or Argentina or Hungary enjoys the benefits of these legacy public works and public services and public housing that haven’t been totally privatized and atomized yet (on top of the strong dollar). Meanwhile, migrants to the US are forced into the more deplorable of slums and ghettos, because the US is so openly hostile to anyone without access to real estate passed down by extended family.