ahiddenman
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- Dec 11, 2010
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I hate it when people speak without having an idea about the economic situation of a certain country...
The minimum wage in Sri Lanka is 43 EUR, that is ~$62. Now you do the math, this guy is paying him almost double than that, what the hell is wrong with that? Have you considered that maybe that guy receiving $5/day feels lucky?
Not even close to Black Hat. This is exploitation.
The minimum wage for online workers is not limited to the country.
Once you have the:
you are able to compete globally, and to a point prices become global for certain tasks. There are certain types of work that have a "going rate" on sites like freelancer.com which are respected by people from many countries, despite the difference in cost of living / exchange rates between those countires.
- skills
- pc
- network connection
The only way to retain a worker at the rates described is to hold them back / prevent them acquiring the 3 elements listed above.
As soon as they acquire those, they will be off to freelancer.com, odesk etc.... unless you pay them more money.
The krux of it is, whether you want to keep re-training people that move on, or pay a better rate to retain someone good for the long term.
I started out paying low rates and got fed up of being messed around, and started to pay better rates.
Yeah, I think you should pay him more. Why? Because he spents a lot of money on his electricity & internet bill if he keeps his computer on for 8 hours everyday...
$5 a day is a good decent starting salary for some part of the world. Where I live this is a very good starting salary and the supply of the workers are endless. With over 180 millions of population and growing, the supply is endless. So when this worker learns all the trades and starts of his own , we will still have plenty more to mess with.
And the best part is these workers will be happy to work with us.
So any one looking for this force, contact me.I will be happy to supply you these slaves. PM me.
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Dude.. just because someone works for a low price, doesn't make them a slave! and it's pretty lame to treat someone as one. Please show some respect!
Raise his fee/s if you're already profiting from the hard labor.. don't take advantage of the needy. $5.00/8hrs work won't pay enough for electricity and internet connection. Believe me, giving back will reward you ten folds.