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> It's a bit like saying developers demanding 6-figure salaries is extortion. Developers don't typically make that much in any country except the US, and that
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
> It's a bit like saying developers demanding 6-figure salaries is extortion.
Developers don't typically make that much in any country except the US,
and that seems mostly attributable to protectionist immigration laws.
So I would agree with your analogy
in that Google and US software developers are both
in an unfairly advantageous bargaining position
that one might call "extortionary"
with some degree of hyperbole.