alt text: 18 of our 40 employees are located in the Philippines. Insanely competent, great judgement, and $5 per hour. If you run a small business and don’t have overseas help you’re at a disadvantage

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    9 months ago

    LOL, I’m the guy you quoted. The arguments in here are straight childish, with a child’s view of how money works. They see $5/hr. and scream.

    Summary of cost of living in Philippines:

    A family of four estimated monthly costs are 1,935.7$ (108,196.2₱) without rent.

    A single person estimated monthly costs are 559.5$ (31,274.4₱) without rent.

    Cost of living in Philippines is, on average, 54.1% lower than in United States.

    Rent in Philippines is, on average, 81.7% lower than in United States.

    https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Philippines

    And I question even those numbers! From what my wife and her friend’s American husbands have told me, and from the videos I’ve watched, it seems even cheaper than that.

    Then there are the idiots saying we should flood the country with American dollars, blow up inflation and the wealth gap. Sound economic planning right there.

    • mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      You’re straw-manning. No one is advocating for flooding the country with foreign money. I’ve been reading your comments and I think you might be misunderstanding the argument. It’s a more nuanced criticism about capitalism, not an argument for how much workers for foreign companies in the Philippines should be paid.