To anyone who thinks that I agree with what I said you are misunderstanding the way I said it. I'm just stating how things are. Cost of living is what dictates pay along with the value that you provide to a company but with remote work that gets adjusted to what the local cost of living is.

Plus I don't work. I'm disabled I collect SSI I get like $10,000 a year. That's it! I can't have more than $2k in my bank account. I can't invest. So uh, have fun making tons of money I could only imagine.

I’ve been thinking about this recently, and I don’t think it is unfair or bad. Having more money and wealth in smaller towns will in the long term benefit the town, no? If anything in the long term it will be terrible for expensive cities, since people will eventually gravitate towards locations where they can have more for less. Personally for me the most important criteria is finding great schooling for my kids, I don’t want them to have to struggle like I did for the first 30 years of my life.

Sadly some careers pay more then others but that’s life. It’s why I worry about the education system eventually crumbling, since teaching and in some countries even healthcare professionals are woefully underpaid. I wish it wasn’t the case but some people get lucky and others successfully follow the money, whilst society allows governments and or private industries to milk human kindness for as much as it can get away with.

Yeah I don't think it's unfair or bad either I think everyone should be making a whole lot more money and universally I think people should be getting money.

This doesn't make any sense. Your pay should be based on the value you provide to the company you work for.. Not based on whether it is fair to your neighbor or not.

> Your pay should be based on ...

So do you advocate uniform global salaries across different locations in different countries?

Even from a lefty perspective: people vary wildly in the value they produce. A society that paid based on output would be as if not more unequal than today's. Plus it does nothing for the people who need money to live but can't or don't do economic production: children, elderly, disabled, caregivers, etc. Socialists will sometimes emphasize the share of productivity captured by capital to argue for redistribution to labor as a class, but for individuals to be paid their own productivity is AFAICT not any serious movement's demand.

And then obviously from the capitalist perspective, your employment only exists to the extent that the employer derives more value from your work than they pay you.

This. For all the talk that says software benefits the world, software developers do forget what's the perspective from the other side.

Should and I agree.