How do you attract "top talent" with half the salaries of the US? Being a software developer in Germany was never an especially lucrative career. They can not

How do you attract "top talent" with half the salaries of the US? Being a software developer in Germany was never an especially lucrative career. They can not even get intra European "talent" to do these jobs. Germany is notorious for its low level of digitalization and it's staggering lack in Software competency.