I agree. PP was asking about why SV pays so much more in the first place. That's a related question but with different variables fixed constant. Indeed, it's

I agree. PP was asking about why SV pays so much more in the first place. That's a related question but with different variables fixed constant. Indeed, it's very stupid to so discriminate between different locals. And it's not even clear this is in the employer's interests besides the higher order effects of dominating labor: in simplistic first-order modeling pay scales like this only hinder the arbitrage between different remote locations that are equivalent in the big corp's eyes.