Seems like an arbitrary boundary to me. IF you can live with timezone differences, why not employ eg Europeans as freelancers? Taxes should be very plain then,

Seems like an arbitrary boundary to me. IF you can live with timezone differences, why not employ eg Europeans as freelancers? Taxes should be very plain then, perhaps you need some reverse VAT declaration but that's it. Wages are lower here, too, so sthg like €80k would actually be pretty good pay. Disclaimer: EU freelancer here.