That is what we call real labor exploitation in a fake world.

"The union is expecting hundreds of avatars of Italian IBM workers, as well as IBM staff from around the world, and other trades unionists, to converge flash-mob style later this month, to demonstrate and spread the word about the dispute..." writes John Wood of Tigmoo, a blog network for UK labor unions.
That is what we call real labor exploitation in a fake world.
Real? Fake? Come on, it's all good. Or bad. I don't know whether I think paying less than the minimum wage in one country for virtual labor by a worker sitting in front of a computer in another country really qualifies as "sweatshop" work. And I don't know whether the spectacle of avatars creating a picket line around a virtual IBM office is clever or ridiculous. But somewhere there is a budding labor economist who is going to make his or her career with a dissertation on this topic, and I can't wait to read it.
Source:www.salon.com