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How is setting up infrastructure to exploit third world labor a "software problem" exactly? I think the problem isn't that software can't do de-warping well, i
by Hamcha 3y ago
How is setting up infrastructure to exploit third world labor a "software problem" exactly?
I think the problem isn't that software can't do de-warping well, it's that by the time you set up everything for book scanning you might as well use a setup that doesn't need it.
- 13415 3y agoYou've also got to wonder about idea behind it that it's supposed to be trivial to send a large number of books to Ethiopia and back without damaging them.
- dredmorbius 3y agoShipping is cheap, generally. Even for relatively high-mass objects such as books. Slow boats are slow but exceedingly efficient. The main risk would likely be container loss off a ship. Possibly environmental damage if spending much time in warm humid climates.
- Syzygies 3y agoThe source article sends these devices to scan books in Ethiopia, where there are people looking for work.
- Dellu 3y agoThat is actually good thing for the local people (in Ethiopia) as well. I would have loved to take a project like this.
- all2 3y ago"Exploitation" is an arguable word, when without outside intervention there would be no employment above a few cents a day. Any employment by those who can pay even a dollar a day could instantly ratchet an entire family out of abject poverty.
- Dellu 3y agoEmploying sb in the third world is a collaboration; not an exploitation.