Re: [Linux-aus] Boycott HP

[Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>]

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On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:19 pm, Gary Allpike wrote:

> In my small, deranged mind, this equates not only to exploitation of third
> world countries,

Unfortunately this is not necessarily true (especially for India). There you 
have a large, well educated (most of the people going into the call centres 
there have degrees from what I've seen) and they get paid good salaries 
(hence why there's huge numbers of people there trying to get in to do the 
work).

They then do work in the appalling conditions that call centre operators work 
in the world over, but hey, what's new there..

So yes, the companies pay less to run the operations, but if someone came to 
Australia and offered people more than the usual wage to do this sort of 
work, would you call it exploitation then ? :-)

Chris
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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