This is pretty terrible. I still don’t get whey they need to enslave their workers though. Looking at average loss numbers per victim it seems even if the typical victim loss was $10,000 and the average employee got one victim a week that is still substantially over the average wage in Cambodia and is almost entirely pure profit. Even if you account for governments seizing funds a third of the time it seems like they’d be more successful operating on a commission model for employees.
> I still don’t get whey they need to enslave their workers though.
They work for free until they prove they can get results under such a system. I think most orgs would like to only pay for employees that actually generate revenue and given the lack of regulation of the black market they have that opportunity.
Also trafficking in people from elsewhere means that the local police are much more willing to co-operate because they're not getting as much hassle from locals about the foreigners suffering as they would if locals were being treated as shittily.
I suspect that many people will exploit others for personal gain under 'duress,' when they would not take that action if they could not justify their immorality by claiming that they had no choice. Of course, most will suddenly fail to make any effort to escape this duress. The canonical example is soldiers who rape and pillage but complain that they were just conscripts following orders.
Why so personal? I’m not saying I would do it. After reading victim stories I don’t think I’d have the heart to take a nickel from these people. I’m just saying that there are enough people out there with no morals who would do it and would probably be pretty good at it. Go on Nigerian twitter and you’ll find people bragging about these kind of scams all the time. Even America in the late 90s had all those stock pump and dump call centers (see Boiler Room) so I don’t think there’s a society where there aren’t people willing to do pretty terrible things.
Oh man, if we've exhausted the pool of people willing to work for scammers so much that you can't pay people to scam any more, that's the best news I've heard this year.
It is a "stick and carrot" situation, that is the way I read the article. The higher the moral and emotional barriers there are, the more furniture and vegetables are required.
To your comment, that stick is required at all is kinda +1 for humanity.
