I am very happy for how it ended for Siddhant and pretty sure that he deserves all the best in this world. However to me a package of 450K as an individual cont

I am very happy for how it ended for Siddhant and pretty sure that he deserves all the best in this world. However to me a package of 450K as an individual contributor seems completely out of reality. I really don't get it. The fact that the same engineering skillset can be paid 450K in USA and peanuts in India (or any other country for what matters) seems to me a huge market distortion. Would like to understand more about why this is happening and how this can be sustainable.