Another globalisation success story

Africans have always been exploited for cheap labour. Back in the bad old days of the slave trade, you had to bring the Africans to the work. In the modern era, in the “knowledge economy,” you can bring the work to the Africans!

You must admit the optics are way better; no chains, no slave auctions or slaveships. It’s all good… just check out this story at BBC.

Rumour has it the brain trust behind Samasource was originally going to call their company Sambosource, but that didn’t fly with the focus groups they ran it by. What a brilliant business plan… set up an outsourcing company that lets companies like Google and Microsoft outsource their work to IT professionals in Kenya who work for nine dollars… A DAY!!!

Just imagine the bags ‘o boodle Google and Microsoft can add to their offshored billions stashed in offshore tax havens by paying nine bucks a day for work they used to do in America! As everyone knows, US workers have long been way to precious, pampered, and lazy to even consider working for such a pittance, whereas Kenyans couldn’t be happier with these crumbs from the Big Tech banquet table.

And look how progressive Sambosource is; they even provide lactating rooms for their female staff! That’s what happens when the upper echelons of an American company are predominantly female; they bring progressive workplace policies right into the heart of the Dark Continent!… for nine dollars a day.

That truly is a heart-warming globalisation success story!