[ezekiel68]

Not picking on your comment, per se, but it is a pet peeve of mine that lower pay in societies with much lower costs of living is often couched as either exploitation or (reverse) unfairness to those in high cost-of-living settings. Consider a metro area in Eastern Europe or Asia. Suppose there are very few jobs available paying the equivalent of US$12 per hour [0]. Now someone starts a software shop or consultancy and offers $13, $15, or $18 (equivalent) per hour. Within that society, such opportunities can easily represent anywhere from a 200% to infinity% (for the unemployed) wage advantage.

tldr; Please consider contextual economic realities before applying reductive backhanded comments.

[0] I'm shooting from the hip, here. Apologies if my example numbers are way off for part or most of the regions I'm mentioning. Even if so, there was a day -- not very long ago -- when they were quite close.