[abigail95]

At the margin employing these people is net positive.

You see poor people and are so disgusted by them and their poverty, you blame the people who do pay them rather than those who don't. How many people could employ a Kenyan today, but don't?

How backwards is this thinking?

Imagine if every American company outsourced 5% of its back office work to Kenya for $2. That would be an enormous benefit, think of the millions of lives improved. Every extra foreign dollar paid to Africans working remote service jobs has 100x the impact of paying it to an American.

Do you really think it's more moral to increase the pay of American office workers from $22 to $24, rather than adding another Kenyan for $2?

You would pay the Americans because they have unions? labor laws? red tape? WHO GIVES A SHIT. "Sorry Kenyans, come back when you pass a minimum wage of $15 USD, then we'll employ you. Oh you can't meet a $15/hr productivity? Stay poor then".