Let me take it another step: Every reason that it's "rational" that remote workers are payed less, i.e. not just a stupid faux-rationilization of the labor mark

Let me take it another step: Every reason that it's "rational" that remote workers are payed less, i.e. not just a stupid faux-rationilization of the labor market reaching a new equilibrium, is evidence that remote work is a failure. A world of resort-town skilled works chained to their hegemon isn't just terrible for workers. It's a terribly inefficient market: a "sharded monopsony". The very unplanned interactions that allow hot-spot workers to change jobs is also a big reason cities are such dynamic economies in the first place.