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Re:The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers by joeax on Sunday July 22, 2018 @01:20PM (#17587767)
I've worked for two separate companies as a remote worker, and with neither did I have to take a discount. Most companies want to pay you for the value you bring, and are not willing to lowball and risk losing highly-talented employees.

There are a few companies out there that play this game (Gitlab [1]), but many others (Basecamp [2]) that pay you what you're worth regardless of location.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16051062

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Re:The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers by UncleEntity on Sunday July 22, 2018 @02:34PM (#17588085)
> Team members in high-wage regions having less discretionary income then ones in low-wage countries with the same role.

Heh, so their answer is to take away (presumably unearned) discretionary income from people who win the location lottery?

How very egalitarian of them.

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Re:The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers by scalesolved on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:43AM (#17591395)
I've said it before but as long as you can get a PO box for the vatican city then Gitlab are going to have to pay you a lot!
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