[fragmede]

OpenAI is operating rationally as a corporation, and choosing labor, legally, in a cheaper country - if they were to pay US wages, why not hire American workers? The entire point is because it's cheaper. There's a different world where OpenAI chose to hire Americans for this job, but it's simply cheaper for them not to. The loss of American jobs is a whole other discussion, but it's the very economics of the situation that drove them to do that in the first place.

[bmitc]

That’s a very narrow minded view of economics though. Minimizing costs and wages is not the only optimization that matters.

[mensetmanusman]

true, But it generally has helped raise billions out of poverty.

[ninjagoo]

that were first thrust into poverty to start with by a different system of exploitation.

I have to admire the beauty of this argument as it has occurred over time - let's exploit them using force and make them poor (enriching ourselves), then use the poverty to justify paying them less (enriching ourselves), using the argument that we are slowly lifting these billions out of poverty (enriching our souls).

[mensetmanusman]

That initial system of exploitation is what the US fought against in a revolution. Everyone was exploited at some time in history.