[coolThingsFirst]

>Even nowadays you can get highly skilled workers for like $50 a month in some African countries.

No way. The market is getting normalised and even Indian devs make good salary nowadays. Now there's basically rest of world and US market salaries.

[DeepSeaTortoise]

Check out e.g. Madagascar. I admit, the salaries are higher now than I remember (or maybe that's just because salaries in the capital are higher), but they're still low enough that you'd end up on a pillory if people were to look into one's business adventures there.

And Madagascar is far from the worst country to be stuck in, since the gunmen to "worker" ratio is rather low compared to other African countries. $50 in Somalia would probably get you a whole, very motivated team and a lengthy prison sentence.

[coolThingsFirst]

Even if the software salaries are 250$ per month for devs which is what I read online, I seriously doubt you can find a highly skilled engineer for that price. A highly skilled engineer would only struggle to get the first client on Upwork and earn a lot more or just leave the country.

By highly skilled I mean:

1) Fluent in English

2) Good education - you can't get a great education in isolation it's either from other smart people through online contact or the more likely, face to face(university).

3) Open source projects, ability to pass interview

Even devs would hire a highly skilled dev for 50$.

The whole idea just reeks of americans who haven't left their country.

[retrocryptid]

It turns out that Africa and India are on different continents and do not refer to the same place.

[coolThingsFirst]

It doesn't matter, you can't get a software engineer for 50$ in Africa.