[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...