> You have two people doing the same job but if you live in Romania and your colleague lives in the US at Gitlab you could earn a lot less. > But that’s treati

> You have two people doing the same job but if you live in Romania and your colleague lives in the US at Gitlab you could earn a lot less. > But that’s treating you, a human being, like an asset. Funny how that objectifies people if you approach it from the market side, but if you start from the human being side, it turns out equal payment doesn't always make sense. How? Take a human being. One with abilities and needs - family, health, freedom, etc. They offer their abilities to you, the employer, because they need the ability to fulfill their needs. But the amount of resources to get there depend on their physical location: more expensive countries demand more money to fulfill the same needs. Therefore, paying the same would favor the needs of some over others. If you consider that most humans have some need for fairness and justice, you can't pay equal rates for the same effort. Best you can do is equitable. It's not the same as paying local market rates, but it precludes paying equally as a solution to objectification.