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They were animating stuff? For money? The thing that hits me the most about this, I think, is the depravity of it all.
The real question is does North Korean let their animators work remote in a LOCL area.
Honestly if N Korea had a cheap/low-barrier remote visa it might be attractive. I would imagine having an oppressive authoritarian regime looking at you as a prime tax slave might mean none of the prols would risk getting their head chopped off to mess with you. Meanwhile labor/rent/food gotta be hella cheap.
Even for tourists who they are trying to extract lots of hard currency from, the food quality is notoriously poor.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So all that's required would then just be to outsource it to a bunch of companies who then outsource it and then claim you have: "no knowledge"? You're the one outsourcing, so it's your responsibility. The entire chain.
Yeah, but "outsource it to a bunch of companies who then outsource it" is literally how the economy works. The most mundane product you can imagine has a network of upstream suppliers that is essentially incomprehensible in its complexity.
Boeing used to make airplanes. Now they outsource the work of "make the airplanes" and all it cost them was their reputation.
Less outsourcing, more just doing the work please.
@dang looks like we have a troll who's creating multiple accounts.
In this case does the original company just not care at all?
When I saw the title, I immediately thought of the show "Invincible" which had abysmal animation, and lo and behold, its right there are the top of the list.
Didn't think they were covering up their North Korean animators though lol.
The HN headline is more clickbaitey than the original article, which has a different headline and goes out if its way to point out that Amazon and HBO are likely not the ones doing the outsourcing to North Korea. > There is no evidence to suggest that the companies identified in the images had any knowledge that a part of their project had been subcontracted to North Korean animators. In fact, as the editing comments…
The real question is does North Korean let their animators work remote in a LOCL area.
Honestly if N Korea had a cheap/low-barrier remote visa it might be attractive. I would imagine having an oppressive authoritarian regime looking at you as a prime tax slave might mean none of the prols would risk getting their head chopped off to mess with you. Meanwhile labor/rent/food gotta be hella cheap.
You go there to work remotely. Food/labor/rest are super cheap.
Everyone is starving to death there, to the point where meth is casually used by most people to stave off hunger pangs.
Not to mention, if they decide they may just get some fun leverage out of a foreign hostage, they may just decide to claim you committed a crime and beat you half (or 3/4's) to death.
This is just the news stories I can recall off the top of my head as well...
The real question is does North Korean let their animators work remote in a LOCL area.
Honestly if N Korea had a cheap/low-barrier remote visa it might be attractive. I would imagine having an oppressive authoritarian regime looking at you as a prime tax slave might mean none of the prols would risk getting their head chopped off to mess with you. Meanwhile labor/rent/food gotta be hella cheap.