There are many people in the US who are poor people but who are still subject to US labor law that requires paying a minimum wage. For the point it’s quite useful to us a term that doesn’t include them.
There are reasons why India is a good country for outsourcing these tasks.
It’s quite similar to speaking about shipping manufacturing jobs to China. It’s insane to have political correctness pushing onto LessWrong in a way where you can’t speak about which countries are good for having certain jobs in those countries.
If we learned anything in Germany it’s that seeing everything in terms of race is a bad idea. The fact that you and Zachary can’t see a talk about countries without pattern matching into race seems illustrative of how screwed up the discourse. Yielding to that on LessWrong where clear thinking is a high value seems very costly.
I’d say that it wasn’t stereotyping, but saying “poor Indian” instead of “poor person” makes it seem unnecessarily racialized.
There are many people in the US who are poor people but who are still subject to US labor law that requires paying a minimum wage. For the point it’s quite useful to us a term that doesn’t include them.
There are reasons why India is a good country for outsourcing these tasks.
It’s quite similar to speaking about shipping manufacturing jobs to China. It’s insane to have political correctness pushing onto LessWrong in a way where you can’t speak about which countries are good for having certain jobs in those countries.
If we learned anything in Germany it’s that seeing everything in terms of race is a bad idea. The fact that you and Zachary can’t see a talk about countries without pattern matching into race seems illustrative of how screwed up the discourse. Yielding to that on LessWrong where clear thinking is a high value seems very costly.
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