Comment by TylerE

That'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.

The 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.

What 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?

There's an indie sci-fi film called Sleep Dealer about this. It's not bad.

We're living in a dystopia.

This 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!