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Did you not read the part where the salary dramatically dropped? Why is it justifiable to pay someone less for the same work, just because of where they live? I
by gnu8 5y ago
Did you not read the part where the salary dramatically dropped? Why is it justifiable to pay someone less for the same work, just because of where they live? If I find a way to produce the same output but with lower expenses, the difference is my profit. I don't share that with the party purchasing my output so they can fucking steal it.
- austhrow743 5y agoWhat does amount of work have to do with anything? Justifiable? What? This isn’t unicef. There’s no moral question here. It’s a bunch of tech assholes divvying up the spoils from further computerising the modern human experience. Then the notion that anyone is being stolen from is just completely ridiculous.
- freyr 5y agoThinking that they’re paying you some intrinsically fair rate for a quantifiable unit of work is nice, but not true. They pay the minimum they feel is required to retain you and prevent you from going to a competitor. And if that amount exceeds the cost to hire someone who can do your job as good as you, they want you gone. That’s it. They know that working remotely from a place with a lower cost of living is a perk. They know even if you take a pay cut, you’ll come out ahead. They know the minimum they need to pay you to retain you has gone down.
- medvezhenok 5y agoIt's hugely idealistic to believe that people get paid the same for the same work. Look at an international circus contract, for example (I was in one). A group of performers from different countries performing in the same place get paid different amounts for doing the same exact role in the show (up to 2.5X difference, by the way) just because the company can get away with it. It's about the cost of the best alternative (for the worker), not about some intrinsic worth of the work.