I think it all comes down to competition. If I'm hiring a remote team globally, then you are competing against people I can hire anywhere. A great engineer in

I think it all comes down to competition. If I'm hiring a remote team globally, then you are competing against people I can hire anywhere. A great engineer in Brazil could cost...I don't know...$45,000. An engineer with the same exact skill set who lives in California might be $160,000 and one in Chicago might be $110,000. If an employer paid $160,000 for every employee then they aren't using their capital very efficiently when they could have saved $115,000 on the employee in Brazil and potentially hired two more people for the team.