I imagine trying to get the world to a condition where some unemployed person can offer to drive you to work for 20 minutes, be paid five dollars, and then nothing else bad happens to them. They don't have their unemployment insurance phased out, have to register for a business license, lose their Medicare, be audited, have their lawyer certify compliance with OSHA rules, or whatever. They just have an added $5.
Isn't India such a place where you can bust your butt for that $5 over and over because there is not a safety net that will supply you with the needs to survive? Doesn't OSHA also make sure that desperate individuals aren't required to unreasonably trade their safety for that extra $5 as they may need to work for an unlicensed employer that chooses to operate outside of legal business boundaries? Isn't Uber a version of the $5 situation?
It's an interesting approach. The "needs to survive" are not very expensive.India also has a safety net - the Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
Eliezer "Harry Potter fanfiction" Yudkowsky is famous enough to get interviewed by a magazine?