> When you can hire someone on the cheap, it becomes a skills market. You get what you pay for. You lost the plot in your defense. If skills are equal, and the

> When you can hire someone on the cheap, it becomes a skills market. You get what you pay for. You lost the plot in your defense. If skills are equal, and the Mexican can ask for less salary _and enjoy the same quality of life and purchasing power_ (due to the cost of living in their native country) as a 200k/year American dev it isn’t a skills market. It is very much a cost savings market. And I am sorry but don’t delude yourself, that dev in Mexico or Colombia is just as talented as state-side devs. Couple their talent with the reality that you don’t even need to be a savant to build a SaaS app in JS and you will see that the privilege enjoyed by software engineers in the USA is on life support.