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Just to be clear - because it took me a minute to grasp this myself - cost of living is your concern, but not an employer’s. The question they are asking is not
by subpixel 6y ago
Just to be clear - because it took me a minute to grasp this myself - cost of living is your concern, but not an employer’s. The question they are asking is not “can Johnny pay the mortgage” but “Johnny wants X - can we fill this role for 2/3 X? Can we offshore this role for the savings?”
- danaris 6y agoBut cost of living should be a concern of the employer. Ignoring it, saying "but we should just get the absolute cheapest we can", is essentially claiming that the employer does not exist within, and rely on, a society. It's socializing their costs in order to make more profit. The idea that employers should, as a principle, seek to pay the least possible for the best work, is predicated on the idea of a free market, which is a theoretical construct. It requires a lot of things, like perfect information on all sides, and externalities being properly priced in, that don't actually exist in the real world.