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Why is this surprising?

For comparison, your fish is 'powered by contractors' making $0.1 an hour in Africa or the Caribbean.

Then people import and refine the product and sell it to you for $30 in the restaurant as a value-add. That's how the economy works.

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I expect the headline is meant to garner attention because of the contrast between the $15/hour data labelers and the $100+/hour information age white collar workers that people fear AI will replace.

Yeah, but it's the same paradigm that follows industry, we just stopped paying attention to the others.

No, my fish isn't. Your fish might be, but that's a you problem.

revertmean’s fish is ethically fished, we’re fine guys.

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