<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I was at a conference when captchas came up and that problem of cheap labour in other regions was mentioned. The response by the free market loving person on the stage was that it is expected, that with globalization and the internet the wages will adjust to a global average and thus captchas will become too expensive to solve by human hands. It sounded like Sci Fi then and still does.</p>