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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @07:22PM (#30535424)
> if you can get good enough devs at a quarter of the cost, the salary will be that rate no matter where you live.

If full remote stays around or gets bigger then this is the end state. Everyone arguing against COL based pay seems to think they'd get to keep there high salary rather then everyone getting payed less.

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by astura on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:43PM (#30537246)
Yeah, and in the long term it has the potential to depress wages really, really low, because someone in, say, Costa Rica is willing to do the job for $30,000/year without benefits.

At the start of my career, 16 years ago, I spent some time abroad in a small country with some very distant family. When the topic of my career came up in conversation I remember multiple people saying that software engineer simply didn't exist as a profession in that country because there were no software jobs available there.

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