[Hakashiro]

It appears you are located in an Asian, South American, African, or perhaps another region. I find it curious that you talk about US/EU compensation, when in fact Poland (which is part of the EU) has Google offices that quite literally pay a half of what Google Dublin pays for the same job, and Dublin in turn is a half or a third of what California pays, if not less.

I too have migrated away from my EU country to another EU country because USA is incredibly racist and getting a job there nowadays is practically impossible.

And I do agree. I've said for quite a while that Cost of Living is a scam to appease poor people. It is very simple: after paying housing, and bills, you are left with more disposable income in a place like Seattle than in a place like Warsaw, Poland. Notice that stuff like iPhone or EC2 instances have more or less the same price globally, so it is funny that these same companies adjust pay regionally, isn't it?

Anyway like someone else mentioned, there's no conspiracy. Companies adjust pay regionally because they can. That's it. I don't understand how more people aren't rioting and burning the streets demanding pay according to value produced... but that's almost communism I suppose?