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“Cheap Labour Everywhere” by Morpheus
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I recently visited my girlfriend's parents in India. Here is what that experience taught me:
Yudkowsky has this facebook post where he makes some inferences about the economy after noticing two taxis stayed in the same place while he got his groceries. I had a few similar experiences while I was in India, though sadly I don't remember them in enough detail to illustrate them in as much detail as that post. Most of the thoughts relating to economics revolved around how labour in India is extremely cheap.
I knew in the abstract that India is not as rich as countries I had been in before, but it was very different seeing that in person. From the perspective of getting an intuitive feel for economics, it was very interesting to be thrown into a very different economy and seeing a lot of surprising facts and noticing how [...]
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First published:
October 16th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2xWC6FkQoRqTf9ZFL/cheap-labour-everywhere
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Yudkowsky has this facebook post where he makes some inferences about the economy after noticing two taxis stayed in the same place while he got his groceries. I had a few similar experiences while I was in India, though sadly I don't remember them in enough detail to illustrate them in as much detail as that post. Most of the thoughts relating to economics revolved around how labour in India is extremely cheap.
I knew in the abstract that India is not as rich as countries I had been in before, but it was very different seeing that in person. From the perspective of getting an intuitive feel for economics, it was very interesting to be thrown into a very different economy and seeing a lot of surprising facts and noticing how [...]
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First published:
October 16th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2xWC6FkQoRqTf9ZFL/cheap-labour-everywhere
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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