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Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese

This article contains a number of interesting facts:

• There are perhaps 100,000 people in china who make a living playing games like World of Warcraft all day long, harvesting things like gold coins that are then sold to people in developed countries.
  
• The work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  
• They earn $250 a month.

This says something about how things are going in China. Most people in the U.S. would consider an 84-hour work week, earning 75 cents an hour, to be a form of slavery.