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> However, how do you deliver more value than someone from a developing country if your pipes are so narrow?

I have moved to a developing country, and now I work from here.

Below the line, there are many candidates to one job. Above the line, there are many jobs to one candidate. Above the line, you can work from where you like. Below the line, you are lucky to have a job at all. They can even tell you to dress like a clown for work, if that is their fancy, and what can you do about it? Nothing.

> I think there's still a lot of room for the value provided by teams working closely together.

Not really. Anybody with talents above the line, will not join such team. So, you will be surrounded by people with talent that is too limited to get what they want. You will most likely not learn anything useful either. What you describe is the prototypical dead-end job.