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Full link:

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260401139/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept

Apparently your mere servitude is not enough for the corporate overlords these days.

Companies are now actively filtering for candidates who are miserable, poor and are heavily in debt.

Wage surveillance includes, as per the article..

"Signals associated with financial vulnerability - including data on whether a prospective employee has taken out a payday loan or has a high credit-card balance - to infer the lowest pay a candidate might accept."

"Companies can also scrape candidates' public personal social-media pages, to determine if they are more likely to join a union or could become pregnant. The data can be used to determine wage increases after an employee is hired"

So much so that Americans are complaining why didn't he stay back in America after his PhD.

Dude built a 20 Billion $ GLOBAL startup competing with Anthropic (minus all the latest frontier compute and hardware support) with a 20 person team in China

If this guy can pull off something like this, honestly all the usual excuses about "not enough government support back home" or "lack of funding" seem pretty lame at this point.

When will any of the NRI founders finally step up, bring all their talents & knowledge from the US and do something similar for India?

Or are our talents only limited towards finding digital ways of exploiting cheap labor and branding it as "innovation"?