Live NPCs in Video Game

This is some cursed story…

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“That’s why it’s really annoying when people talk about exploitation,” the gamer told Rest of World. “I couldn’t tell you what the hourly rate comes to, but I could tell you that people make very little money and the cost of living is very low in the Philippines.”

Why even talk about the Philippines? There are plenty of NEETs out here who might take this job. It is not like the pay in other jobs is anything decent. People, who only have their low paid jobs depend on government assistance, food banks, and similar schemes to make it. Inflation has pretty much caught up with minimum wage. Somehow this is not controversial or exploitative but some crypto bro talking about Filipino NPCs is?