[ss1996]

A big pet peeve of mine are articles that mention salary in US dollars without any context. It's common sense that $2 in Kenya goes much further than $2 in the US.

Doing some cursory googling - Kenya's median salary is around $900 monthly, while USA's is a little more than $4000. So the $2 figure in the Time article is actually $8+ for a Kenyan, which is higher than USA's federal minimum wage.

Alternatively, we could also normalise by Purchasing Power Parity between USA and Kenya, which is around 3.12, so $2 becomes $6+

Are these figures low? Sure. But exploitative? Don't think so.