[shdudns]

If you can WFH you've demonstrated to your employer that one impediment to offshoring your job is gone.

Thats not to say there aren't other impediments. Maybe your job is legally protected onshore (military)

Nor is this a value judgement, or a prescription of a solution. Maybe lowered tech wages are the best solution for this problem. I work in a lab, I'd love for these coders to make less money and not have to compete with them economically.

But WFH is a demonstration of ability to off-shore. That's indisputable.

[jmyeet]

If this were true, every tech job would've been offshored already. The idea that offshoring is strictly better and cheaper is a myth that's yet to be realized since the 1990s. Just like RTO mandates and layoffs, it's just another tool to suppress wages.

[shdudns]

Which is why I stressed that successful WFH is one of many enablers of off-shoring.