It's not as simple: someone doing a mundane job in a rural town in USA south is likely still making more than a University professor here. So one has to optimiz

It's not as simple: someone doing a mundane job in a rural town in USA south is likely still making more than a University professor here. So one has to optimize for the locality and/or have an opportunity to change it. I think it is unfair, since you have to control for many things not directly in your hands. Perhaps it feels worse because I've been hacking at computers since before it was clear it's the job of the future/present, so I did no optimization, but rather just doing what I love.