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A comment on Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?.

Re:Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how ... by mavelikara on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:26PM (#32717353)
Does this same logic also apply to the price of goods and services you consume? For example, when you go to a restaurant in your location, do you pay them the same as an equivalent meal would cost in US/UK? The chef there is just as talented as one in the US, and the value of satisfying a human's hunger should be the same irrespective of location.
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Re:Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how ... by pyrodactyl on Sunday September 04, 2022 @05:19PM (#32717819)
Well the product this company makes is uniformly priced across all locations. So if i wanted to consume the product my company makes I would be paying the same price as US/UK.
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Re:Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how ... by betaby on Sunday September 04, 2022 @07:27PM (#32718787)
Classic restaurant and cars analogies don't work mostly. While traveling around the world I find 'comparable' restaurants to be 'comparably' priced. I just returned from a country with a GDP per capita four times lower compared to the one I live in now. Yet prices in restaurants in downtown or hotel room only around 30% cheaper. Iphones, laptops are cheaper in US that basically everywhere.
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Re:Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how ... by calculated on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:49PM (#32717577)
Difference here is that we live in the digital world where location isn't a constraint to providing services.
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Re:Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how ... by mavelikara on Sunday September 04, 2022 @05:08PM (#32717739)
OP said: > I've raised this issue with my manager and they've told me that I can transfer if i want those pay scales but that's not a possibility for me.

Looks like location is a constraint to them.

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