I worked at a remote mine site in Indonesia. One of our helpers was from a nearby island. I was shocked to hear that he was only paid 50 cents an hour. I asked him about it.
“50 cents and hour!?”
“Oh yes!!! And room and board - best wage in all of Indonesia!! In seven years I will have enough to build a home for my family!!!”
I thought to myself - “Okay, it’s probably not like my home - but to have a home bought and paid for in seven years? pretty good.”
The guy was a go-getter. I had to track him down in his dorm one time. He was studying an English book.
When he worked with me he got $1.50 an hour. Double time for working outside the actual mine site, and another 50 cents an hour for the entire day because we were out for more than 8 hours.
Plus - at lunch and the ride home I gave them a Snicker’s bar that was probably $1 at the company store.
(This was back in the mid 1990’s. They are probably getting 80 cents an hour today!?)
Indonesia is not a resource-hungry communist dictatorship building up the most massive military on Earth