The money creates a bigger quality gap. At Meta's US offices, most devs are foreign origin. They moved for the money. So those devs wouldn't just accept paltry

The money creates a bigger quality gap. At Meta's US offices, most devs are foreign origin. They moved for the money. So those devs wouldn't just accept paltry sums if Meta hired them overseas and they didn't need to come to the US to work. But Meta would have added friction the more and more of their teams are separate from product owners and business owners.