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That's another pet peeve of mine. Child labor / "underpaid" workers. People can sew footballs for $0.25 each and we consider that bad. You have to take into account the country they live in, the number of people they're feeding, etc.
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Yeah, I'm aware of that conundrum, Quzah. How much is that $0.25 to them? Probably a lot more than $0.25 means to me. The real trick is to determine when this becomes a social problem rather than an economic reality.
I'm going to be paying more attention to this as time passes. I may be out of a job in 5 years. I work as phone tech support for Washington Mutual, and before that, the internal Microsoft helpdesk. In one of my nightmare visions of the future, tech support businesses in India take over, and pay their workers $5/hr versus my wage here. That $5 certainly goes farther than my $5. I'd defintely need to find some other job in this field, or I might need to look into other sectors.
I may have to become a farmer ...