I was replying to this sentence specifically: > I still don't know if it's good or bad but I do know that if you'll pay someone in Kenya a SF salary it will un

I was replying to this sentence specifically: > I still don't know if it's good or bad but I do know that if you'll pay someone in Kenya a SF salary it will unbalance the local market. It seemed to imply that for a company that was trying to do "good" as opposed to getting "the best workers they can for as cheapest as they can", it might be bad that they unbalance the market in Kenya in the sense that if SF regularly hired based on the value they receive then employers in Kenya might not be able to keep up with the rising wages. My reply was, basically, it's not bad for Kenya overall. Sure, it's bad for the SF company in the sense that it costs them more, but if we're talking about if it's generally a good or bad thing to happen, then it's good for a company that is trying to prioritize doing good over being cheap. In the end, I don't think we'll see a trend where companies prioritize their employees over greater profits. This is a matter of workers becoming as good at negotiations as companies, and just as companies try to lower the price by looking at worker's cost of living, workers should try to raise the price by looking at the value they'd be giving to the company. If the majority of workers did this, then the price should effectively rise, and provide a more equal quality of life overall. The difficulty here is getting workers to learn this and be as effective at negotiating as human resource workers that have specialized in doing these negotiations. It also doesn't help that there's a general culture, which is probably stronger in developing countries, where employees try to work hard beyond what they owe the company for the honor of being labeled a hard worker. EDIT: Changed "morally good or bad" to "generally a good or bad thing to happen" and "being good" to "doing good". I meant to match shubidubi's use of good or bad, rather than imply that it's immoral for a company to negotiate.