&gt;&quot;<i>humans are inherianty cheap</i>&quot;<p>Desperate humans are cheap, I would say. And until we have a completely global market place for labour, there will always be a large disparity between what we think an individual is worth, and how little an individual is willing to work for due to their local circumstances.<p>As usual, I fault the governments that promise but don&#x27;t fix, election after election.