This hit me the hardest when for a brief, beautiful moment I was in Switzerland making roughly 4x my normal salary. Those companies are only paying this much b

This hit me the hardest when for a brief, beautiful moment I was in Switzerland making roughly 4x my normal salary. Those companies are only paying this much because the cost of living there is so high. It's so obvious that I now feel silly for not realizing this fully before experiencing it myself. Then again if companies can still turn a profit offering these salaries, then perhaps the work is actually that valuable? On the other hand there might be an upside to being paid half: you're unlikely to deliver less value than your cost. Any corona-related layoffs start with the most expensive (comparing to value brought) employees.