those arguments look just slightly in bad faith since they act like they're only competing for talent against local non-remote companies for every location when

those arguments look just slightly in bad faith since they act like they're only competing for talent against local non-remote companies for every location when they're not. They're also competing against other remote companies, specially those that don't do location-based comp. Team members in low-wage regions being in golden handcuffs and sticking around because of the compensation even when they are unhappy. Those people will be still be in golden-handcuffs until they find another remote job. A concentration of team members in low-wage regions, since it is a better deal for them, while we want a geographically diverse team. Come on, you can still pay top dollar globally and hire evenly around the globe if that's what you want. It's just cheaper their way. Honestly, the whole thing is just a huge rationalization. They could just have said "we adjust for location because we can".