There is increased participation by the developing world in the global manufacturing marketplace: the sewing machine in Bangladesh can be a means to support an entire family. Given a marketplace for jobs a la Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project can become a modern-day sewing machine. … At its best, it is a powerful bootstrap for over a billion people. At its worst, it is enslavement. How should we proceed?
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