• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Indian politicians like their people doing shit work for too little pay from foreign companies, it keeps them distracted from the corruption.

    Like apparently 10-20% of their GDP is from the exploitative “legit” call centers and these kind of training or moderation gigs, and a significant amount of that chunk also comes from the scammer industry that they allow to operate for the economic benefits.

    • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      10 days ago

      Whilst the first paragraph I can agree with, the chunk of 10-20% GDP is unsubstantiated with data. As it stands today, the core of scam industry has actually moved away from India towards the porous Myanmar-Cambodia border. Not only is it not well defined due to political reasons, the instability provides a volatile situation. Private mafia like companies operate there.

      Sure, Indian folks do work there as well but not out of their own volition. Many have been gotten there through fake promises of high paying jobs only to be let down and with no way to escape. This isn’t a phenomenon restricted to India either. Recently, South Korea summoned the Cambodian Ambassador after its citizens were embezzeled in a similar way in the compounds there.