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		aorth on Jan 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hou... 2 USD is currently ~248 KES, which is actually a reasonable wage for unskilled labor in Kenya. If you can do this work for eight hours a day, for roughly twenty days a month, then you're making ~40,000 KES per month. That's a very good salary for a huge portion of the population in Kenya. Source: living and working in Kenya since 2007.

Balgair on Jan 18, 2023 [–]

Hey! Anything else you can share with us about the Kenyan tech/start-up scene? How's the rocketry business there?

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