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> I can tell you that $5 an hour is solid professional wages in the Philippines

So to start, $5 an hour is 250% more than $2 an hour. This is literally elementary school math.

This is like a person in the US complaining that $20k / year is not enough to live on, and hearing back that they're silly because it's not that hard to live on $50k / year. These are very, very different figures.

Given that the entire point of my post is to suggest that US companies can afford to pay $7.25 an hour, it stands to reason that $5 would afford a lifestyle much closer to that.

> if $2 is above the median wages in Kenya, then it is making the country richer, not making them "incredibly stupidly poor".

If $2 is the median wage in Kenya, that just tells you the country is super poor. They are still a country in the global economy, and global prices are still what global prices are.

The argument that it's somehow justifiable for companies that can afford seven figure engineer salaries to pay people this little, because other people in that area get the same is, yet again, literal evil. I'm really confused why this is hard to understand. Maybe if we were talking about a small Kenyan farm, then yeah it would be a big ask. However, we are not. We are talking about OpenAI. The company spending billions on GPU-filled data centers.

Is it just annoying to recognise how the companies in other countries have been aggressively fucking half the human race, all in the quest of minute cost optimizations the annual weight of which is likely to be a rounding error when compared to running one of their data centres... for an hour.

Edit: Just to really highlight the difference I'm talking about, consider the table on [this page](https://www.dataphyte.com/latest-reports/nigerias-wealth-inequality-score-is-35-1-and-its-11th-in-west-africa/). In particular look at how the average income correlates to average wealth.

An average income of $1.27 / hour is correlated with having essentially no meaningful saving. Jumping just a bit more to $4.20 / hour correlates with nearly the same accumulated wealth as another 4x jump. Again, this is a fairly obvious figure when just looking at prices of things around the world. At $4-5 / hour you reach a point where you're making enough in many places to save up a nest-egg. At less than half that rate... You're not. Quod Erat Demonstrandum,

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