This article is not being published to malign the lovely monkeys. The reference to them was made simply to illustrate the point that humans ought to be paid and employed with a dignified level of wages.
Going through Craigslist, oDesk and a few other outsourcing bulletin boards, you'd most probably encounter people looking for skilled workers at dirt cheap rates. The internet has allowed people to find workers from the inexpensive sides of the planet who will come out with excellent output.
However, just because there are people in some countries who survive with less than $1/day doesn't mean that you can also find "Techies" who can write a new version of Microsoft office at a below poverty line wages.
Let's take the Philippines, for example. There
are street people in the poorest parts of the capital who probably survive on an income of $2/day. However, do you honestly believe that you can find a top class web applications programmer in that country at that rate? Geesh, you'd have to couch up much more than that. IT experts there didn't earn their college degrees and accumulated work experiences on that daily budget, call center agents didn't master their American twangs while being fed with garbage and of course, no PC in this world can ever be purchased by anybody living at a couple of bucks a day. The last time I checked, the well, meaning techies at MIT are yet to start mass producing their $175 3rd world laptops that runs on open source software.
To people looking for a good outsourcing remedy, let me tell you... If It costs you $10/hour paying a data encoder in L.A., why not remunerate your outsourced labor with $5/hour? Other than wages, you were also able to save on office space, utilities, benefits, taxes, insurance, etc.. Don't push it too much by offering $1/hour.
With so many starving people in the world, there will always be takers at any wage level. But let me ask you.. Are you willing to risk it? You'll never know, it might be a greasy street scavenger behind a PC, at the other end of the line.
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Going through Craigslist, oDesk and a few other outsourcing bulletin boards, you'd most probably encounter people looking for skilled workers at dirt cheap rates. The internet has allowed people to find workers from the inexpensive sides of the planet who will come out with excellent output.
However, just because there are people in some countries who survive with less than $1/day doesn't mean that you can also find "Techies" who can write a new version of Microsoft office at a below poverty line wages.
Let's take the Philippines, for example. There
are street people in the poorest parts of the capital who probably survive on an income of $2/day. However, do you honestly believe that you can find a top class web applications programmer in that country at that rate? Geesh, you'd have to couch up much more than that. IT experts there didn't earn their college degrees and accumulated work experiences on that daily budget, call center agents didn't master their American twangs while being fed with garbage and of course, no PC in this world can ever be purchased by anybody living at a couple of bucks a day. The last time I checked, the well, meaning techies at MIT are yet to start mass producing their $175 3rd world laptops that runs on open source software.To people looking for a good outsourcing remedy, let me tell you... If It costs you $10/hour paying a data encoder in L.A., why not remunerate your outsourced labor with $5/hour? Other than wages, you were also able to save on office space, utilities, benefits, taxes, insurance, etc.. Don't push it too much by offering $1/hour.
With so many starving people in the world, there will always be takers at any wage level. But let me ask you.. Are you willing to risk it? You'll never know, it might be a greasy street scavenger behind a PC, at the other end of the line.
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Thank you for calling. Can you tell I'm undervalued?
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