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By investing there, one is almost certainly benefiting from cheaper labour, and who knows how many people one is employing are having to live secret lives on pain of being brutalised.
My assumption is that the Malaysian branch is a case of having a more significant presence in the Asian markets rather than anything cynical. But I do take your point and there certainly are companies that profit by offshoring as a means of circumventing those pesky hard-won labour laws and human rights issues.
I remain ambivalent because I don't think there is anything dodgy with this decision (after all, one of Larian's strengths in a market dominated by several companies who are now primarily noted for their unsavoury practises is that they aren't like them, so I doubt they'd do that for the PR hit alone) but if I was called on to spend time in a country whose laws make it basically illegal to be me I would be extremely uncomfortable. I mentioned a few posts back about the bullying manager who got all shouty that I would need to do precisely that and that he was given a roasting by our HR woman.
