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This is wrong on two levels:

1. That was deemed illegal and they've stopped.

2. Salaries are not being kept down in SV. The whole topic here is that they are out of control. Have you actually tried to hire anyone? I have. Even people that telecommute from low cost of living areas want SV salaries. I've had to go outside the US for my last 2 hires.

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You misunderstood me. I'm saying that the fact that they stopped means that we should expect salaries to go up. Because they were artificially lowering salaries before, and now they stopped that.

Right. Thanks for the clarification.

I highly doubt they have stopped. Just got smarter about how they do it

I think you're getting downvoted because you seem to have misunderstood the parent commenter. They were saying the same thing as what you're saying here. Ie. that salaries are high because "that was deemed illegal and they've stopped".

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