Employees working in the India/UK/EU office for an American company already make much less than their US colleagues for the same work. If one were to measure t

Employees working in the India/UK/EU office for an American company already make much less than their US colleagues for the same work. If one were to measure the cost of living in real terms in a place like India beyond lower rent and cost of groceries(reduced life expectancy due to pollution and higher rate of road accidents for example), it's even worse. On the other hand just getting into a FANG/unicorn in India is enough to defacto push you out of the middle class by any measure. I guess my point is most folks never had it as good as some others for the same work even before remote took off. It all boils down to the local market for labour unfortunately. If your job doesn't require you to show up in a Bay Area office, you're competing with a much larger talent pool. There are a lot more people who can solve inane Leetcode problems outside the Bay Area / whatever American $CITY