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If it's any consolation, current American tech compensation is a blatant bubble that will probably pop like a helium balloon once the China tariffs roll out. If you can't bring margins down on hardware, then employers are going to reduce their margins on management and development.

This has been a problem for a while now, and it's not one that's going to go away. You can feed and house an entire development firm in Pakistan for the price of a single San Francisco-based dev.