[pc86]

I mean doing something yourself is often preferable to using a third party especially where privacy is concerned, but this isn't slave labor at slave wages we're talking about here. What job do you think these people would have if they weren't sitting in an office typing PII into computers all day? They wouldn't suddenly be getting six figure remote programming jobs. They'd be doing the same thing for some other company, or they'd be doing something worse. Third world labor is not exploited because it's in the third world and makes less in an absolute sense than other areas.

Edit: Ah you edited while I was replying, yeah it makes sense that you're selling something, hence the mischaracterization.

[ds]

I am not OK with supporting someone getting paid 2-3 dollars a day for this labor and would prefer to not support that business model if I can.

I also dont trust those workers not to misuse or sell my information on the side because of the unfortunate financial situation they are in financially.

Its acutally a similar answer for why I dont pirate games or software. I dont want to support the behavior and I dont trust that something bad wont happen as a result (virus/malware/etc.)

[pc86]

The dollar amount they're getting paid is irrelevant, what matters is how that compares to what they'd be making otherwise. If you get paid $0.50/day to work on a farm for 12 hours, getting paid $3/day to type for 10 is a pretty fantastic opportunity.

But the median income in Milan is something on the order of $1,200 USD/mo so no your $2-3/day figure is pure fiction.

Edit: Manila seems to be the outlier by about 10-15% but I'm making a guess that most of those types of firms would be located in the major cities and not rural areas.

[ds]

Id get into this debate, but its been done a million times before.

Heres the cliffnotes of how it goes though, roughly:

* So is minimum wage ok then?

* Why cant a minimum wage person invest all their money into a startup? Why do they have to be a accredited investor?!?

* Why cant I just open up a payday loan place that charges 900% interest? Theres no other payday loan places around and poor people willingly will use it!

* What about prostitution, nobody is forcing them to do it?

* Alright then, Should we let poor people sell their organs? Again, nobody is forcing them to do it!

Cliffnotes: Just because someone will 'willingly' do something, or doesnt have any better options, doesnt make it just or moral. You setting up a 'consulting' company in bangladesh that pays people x$ a day to do something is exploiting those people, plain and simple.

Also, as to your phillipine cost- You are completely wrong. The average wage across the majority of regions in the country is under $10 per day. This is where (see my first link below) most shops get setup, obviously.

https://www.outsourceaccelerator.com/articles/average-salary...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1048636/philippines-mont...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_ave...