Implicit in your argument is that people would always value SV > the rest of the US > Canada > Poor countries. There are a lot of very talented people that hav

Implicit in your argument is that people would always value SV > the rest of the US > Canada > Poor countries. There are a lot of very talented people that have values that don't align that way for a variety of extremely valid reasons. As someone who has the right to work in both Canada and the US, and who has been attempted to recruit by SV companies, I prefer the benefits of living where I do in Canada over the lifestyle costs of living in SV with 3x the money.