Migrant farmworkers cannot afford $20/month API costs for AI that reads pay stubs and contracts in their language

Migrant agricultural workers — many earning below minimum wage — receive pay stubs, employment contracts, and safety documents in English they cannot fully read, and are routinely underpaid or exposed to hazardous conditions because they cannot verify what they signed. Cloud-based translation and document analysis APIs cost $20+/month per user, which is prohibitive when you earn $12/hour picking strawberries for 6 months a year. Even free tiers require account creation with email verification, credit cards, and terms-of-service agreements — all barriers for workers with limited digital literacy and no stable address. An on-device Gemma 4 model with multilingual capability (trained on 140+ languages) loaded once onto a cheap Android phone can translate and explain employment documents indefinitely with zero ongoing cost, zero account requirements, and zero data collection. The structural requirement is that the AI must be permanently free to operate after initial setup, which is architecturally impossible with API-based models that meter every token.