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North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series

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Re: North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series

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Post by aaron695 »

x0x0 wrote: post #172
exhilaration wrote: post #88

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But that's the most interesting part of the article - that Amazon and HBO projects are being worked on by NORTH KOREAN workers!!! I totally agree with the HN headline and I'm glad it got me to click and read the entire article.

It's also wild that it somehow makes financial sense to outsource a core input into your product. A company that makes animations outsourcing animation makes as much sense to me as a software company outsourcing engineering. Though we do have a plane company that outsources making planes, but that's going some sort of way right now...

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Post by josephstalinOk »

RajT88 wrote: post #79
beaeglebeachh wrote: post #47

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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.

Let's game it out. 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 c…

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josephstalinOk wrote: post #244
RajT88 wrote: post #79

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Let's game it out. 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 c…

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Re: North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series

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Post by josephstalinOk »

bobthepanda wrote: post #72
beaeglebeachh wrote: post #47

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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.

North Korea is no stranger to famine, so if you want food it's probably not the best place to go. Even for tourists who they are trying to extract lots of hard currency from, the food quality is notoriously poor.

What a strange thing to say. No country is stranger to famines. Nowadays the country has a normal and modern economy.
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