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It’s still extracted labor-value. In an equal exchange companies like these would be driving millions of dollars into the African economy, instead of taking advantage of economic inequality and CoL inequity. Data labeling jobs in the U.S. are usually 40k-50k a year jobs.
And median household income in the US is $70,784/yr so it would seem very likely these Kenyan laborers would get a standard of living no different (possibly even better) than that of US laborers performing the same job. The only difference is the surplus value that can be extracted from each worker.
That’s household income, so on median that is one person making 40,000k a year. But you’re being obtuse. This is bullshit and you know it, rates of currency exchange are drastically different between the two countries, this is just obfuscation of labor-value. If a worker in the U.S. can work the same job and then move to Kenya and live a life of luxury, then very clearly these workers are getting fucked for the global value of their labor, as it is a global market that ChatGPT sells and trades within, not particular to the Kenyan market. This is money that could, and in an actually fair market, should, be going through to fuel and bring the Kenyan consumer economy to U.S. value standards.
This is similar to how the standard of living varies wildly within the U.S, however, the standard of exchange and exploitation is not based off of the local value provided to the laborer, but the global market profit that is extracted from the laborers work. This is essential to the understanding of how a labor aristocracy develops and exists. Workers within the imperial core are given consumption privileges not afforded to the workers of other nations for the same work, and therefore have no material incentive to seize the means of production even though the value of their labor is also vastly exploited. We give up the steak for strips of fat from the table, because at least it is not the shit from the heels.
If a worker in the U.S. can work the same job and then move to Kenya and live a life of luxury, then very clearly these workers are getting fucked for the global value of their labor
You are absolutely right. From grocery prices to cell phone plans, American consumers are being price gouged and the rent is too damn high.
Workers within the imperial core are given consumption privileges not afforded to the workers of other nations for the same work
What even is this statement? You think these office workers leave their climate controlled data farm and go home to their unelectrified, dirt floor hovel and in Kenya no iphone? You need to check your assumptions. Kenyan workers are just as shrewd as workers in the west and a growing middle class demands the same treats they see portrayed in American cultural exports.
Honestly try to explain to a middle class Kenyan that they are super exploited unless they are living like kings making the same wage as a worker in the US. They’re more likely to subscribe to a “rise and grind” attitude than to leftist theory, just like their American counterparts. But go ahead and subscribe to your utopian socialism where entire nations of laborers join hands in international solidarity, capital forgoes the benefits of global labor arbitrage, and the army of surplus labor refuses to scab. Please! Beg these Kenyans to give up their strips of fat from the table for the sake of unemployed American workers now eating shit from the heels. See how it goes.
