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Re:Experiment: The costs of slow build times by bluGill on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:41AM (#33921652)
In a low cost of living area you can hire cheap developers and not worry about the time they spend. Or you can work on low value things that companies that can afford more expensive machines can't make enough profit on to be worth it.

Though of course if your area is ever discovered (including remote work) the high value companies will come after you for the cheap good developers, give them better machines and repeat the rewards of good developers.

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Re:Experiment: The costs of slow build times by scott_w on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:04AM (#33921941)
> In a low cost of living area you can hire cheap

That holds true for other industries. Taking logistics: maybe a company uses motorbikes to move smaller packages around, rather than lorries, storing outdoors, etc. It still doesn't answer my question of where the "just don't be poor" sentiment came from. Maybe the OP is just having a bad day :-)

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