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Go to upwork, pick a skilled job, like Java development or mechanical engineering, and then browse labor rates for people outside of the US. You have CAD drafte
by sk2020 6y ago
Go to upwork, pick a skilled job, like Java development or mechanical engineering, and then browse labor rates for people outside of the US. You have CAD drafters in Pakistan billing at $5/hr. Easily a 75% discount on a skilled American. Pop-wisdom is that <$15/hr “isn’t a living wage”.
These economies are efficient in the sense that much of their population lives in poverty, the likes of which is almost entirely absent from the US. We basically won’t let anyone starve if they don’t refuse help, and we subsidize even the most stupid and violent members of our population out of compassion (and sometimes for votes). Personally, I would not welcome depressing US wages to a global mean while political apparatchiks and the idle class pocket the difference. I don’t think you really want that either.
- destinyawe 6y agoExcuse me .. yes $5 is charged but only by the entry level / inexperienced ones. Even $5 does not go much in those countries anymore. Experienced coders charge $30 or above from pukistan but I get your point it is still a lowball offer compared to $100 for a US based developer. But tell me if you are a startup and just bootstraping your company with your own savings , where would you look to get your job done? Would you rather pay $100 per hour to a developer based in US or $30 to an experienced developer from somewhere else if your goal is to get your MVP up and running as fast as you can so that you can then attact some venture capital that you can use to hire "real" developers here in USA?