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If you do that you'll come across as mentally challenged.

And the next guy? He'll do it for $26K. And the next guy (or gal) desperate for a job will do it for $25K. A lot of places in the US don't even have minimum wage!

It'll be a race to the bottom, it's already a struggle competing with developers in countries with lower living costs.

How are you going to support yourself or a family on minimum wage? And wtf does 'calmer' even mean? You've either no experience at all in industry or you're burnt out, either way you need professional help (counseling) to help recognize your worth.

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That's why I mentioned min wage. You're right about the race to the bottom, and I feel pretty pessemtic about the future since if you don't have to stay in the US, the incentives really are there to outsource. But I know outsourcing isn't reasonable or posibble for everyone so there always be work that has to get done here, and at least in my state, it'll be at the lowest for min wage.

I don't have a better explanation for "calmer" for now besides what I wrote about being hired faster/less likely to be fired/put under performance review or something like. I'm still trying to brainstorm the ideas in a better way and I don't want it to be specific to any particular job. (What would "calmer" look like for a full stack web developer? a product manager? a system designer? It doesn't matter but I still have to find a better way to explain it in general, maybe slower/low-stress is a better word but it always ends up as a fuzzy term that doesn't lend itself well for explaining how it's any different than regular work)