> These workers are often exploited and treated as expendable.
So, common ground with a lot of Hacker News audience?
Don't take me too seriously here, and not to excuse anything but what would these people be doing if they weren't data labeling? How would they be treated differently?
Presumably, they'd be working for some other multinational, because overall their quality of living is better than working at whatever other local industry exists?
The data labeling job itself strikes me as something dystopian. As if we're the work mules for our AI overlords.