Now We’re Using Other Peoples’ Happiness to Cheat Ourselves Out of Capitalism?

*Shaking my head*

*Unsubscribe*

I left this guy’s YouTube channel and never went back.

He’s a crazy successful entrepreneur. I binged his videos every day because I wanted to follow in his footsteps and build a six-figure digital marketing agency. I even bought his book.

I stopped watching him after he said in one of his videos that he makes 20k pounds a month, yet he outsources three Filipino workers and pays them one hundred or fewer pounds each.

He said, “they’re happy, so it’s fine.”

People are trying to cheat capitalism.

I find it weird when digital nomads justify their exploitation of workers by saying the workers are “happy with it, so it’s okay.”

So, it’s okay to pay workers from developing countries dust compared to you?

Capitalism is exploitation, period. You can’t cheat the system by using your workers’ perceived happiness as a crutch. Of course, someone from a developing country would love it if you paid them 100 USD a month. That’s like 1,000 bucks in their country.

Just because something isn’t capitalistic by their standards, doesn’t mean you aren’t a capitalist.

This guy knew what he was doing.

He paid his three Filipino workers a spec of his monthly income so he could automate his business and sink his feet in Cabo sand drinking Hennessy.

This leads me to my next point.

If someone takes a job, what other choice do they have BUT to be happy with it?

C’mon.

I once got a minimum wage job at a movie theater. I stayed there for two-plus years. Why? I needed to pay the bills, not because I was “happy” to get minimum wage.

While the bourgeoisie gets drunk in Cabo, your average citizen is working to the bone so they can support their families. They’re “happy” with minimum wage because they’re one missed paycheck away from getting their house foreclosed.

Think about it.

If Jeff Bezos were to do a survey where he walked around an Amazon warehouse, asking his workers if they were happy with their jobs, 95% of them would say yes. Why?

They can’t afford to get fired for badmouthing the owner.

No one is ever “happy” with a job that pays dust. They’re happy because they’ve learned how to scrape by with smaller wages.

People don’t put themselves in other peoples’ shoes before they decide the wages.

The digital nomad life looks pretty sweet. I’m not saying everyone should break their backs to run their business by themselves.

Yes, I too would like to try sinking my feet in Cabo sand with a glass of Hennessy near my laptop. Who doesn’t want relaxation? Anyone who works hard on their business deserves a nice wage.

But a simple solution to this problem of outsourcing workers from developing countries for cheap labor is to pay them how we would want to be paid.

Let’s be real, the business owner is always going to make more than the workers (unless there’s a dramatic end to capitalism right now). Heck, I’ll make more than my workers if I stumble into the digital nomad lifestyle.

But one thing I know I’ll do is put myself in their shoes, not cheat by saying they’re happy with a measly twenty bucks a month because it’s their standards. I’ll translate the value of different currencies and ask myself what a good wage would be by my standards.

Empathy can go a long way in eradicating capitalism.

Final Thought

The guy I stopped watching is probably making more money than before.

That’s great for him, but not for the outsourced workers he’s exploiting. You can’t cheat capitalism. Just because it’s not exploitative by your workers’ standards, doesn’t mean it’s not exploitative. That’s a cop-out for people to justify what they’re doing.

Have empathy.

That digital nomad lifestyle looks sexy to everyone. Most people would do that with their lives if they could. The harsh reality is not everyone can.

So let’s pay people how we would want to be paid.

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