The pay there is just 47 cents an hour. There are many nations like this one. They are not industrialized. They have few things to be sold for export, let alone to their own people. The so-called Third World nations are far behind in technology.
Few people are well educated.
Most of them try to scrape a living off the land. It's a hard life. The culture is different. If only prosperity and happiness could be achieved as Podolsky believes by raising salaries around the world to equal those of developed nations. His thought is noble.