I'm not super sure it's that. What's stopping companies like Spotify? It's not like they were just trying to address the Swedish market. And note carefully, fr

I'm not super sure it's that. What's stopping companies like Spotify? It's not like they were just trying to address the Swedish market. And note carefully, from Wikipedia: > In April 2016, Ek and Lorentzon wrote an open letter to Swedish politicians demanding action in three areas that they claimed hindered the company's ability to recruit top talent as Spotify grows, including access to flexible housing, better education in the programming and development fields, and stock options. Ek and Lorentzon wrote that to continue competing in a global economy, politicians needed to respond with new policies, or else thousands of Spotify jobs would be moved from Sweden to the United States. The "and stock options" seems hugely overlooked but is not at all trivial. It seems to be one of the most important pressures on US companies to push all developer salaries way, way up.