You can't just discount the exceptions to make an argument. Uprooting a family and moving to a different country while being in the mercy of a work visa is not

You can't just discount the exceptions to make an argument. Uprooting a family and moving to a different country while being in the mercy of a work visa is not something to be taken lightly either in practice. Anyway the point is not who should belong into a protected class, in fact when there were no legal protections it was still not fair to underpay some folks just because companies could get away with it. It just happens companies can do it with remote workers as of today.