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The right answer is whatever price lets you sell a product at prices that people will buy.

Company A that keeps paying SF level pay competing against Company B that lowers its payroll costs might be at a disadvantage if it can’t price products low enough to compete with company B.

Of course that depends how interchangeable products from company A and B are, but obviously for things like clothing, plastic products, and electronics, US companies could not afford to be competitive while paying US wages.

So far, software companies have been spared this international competition due to the lack of similar quality products from elsewhere, but that doesn’t need to be true forever.