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> There’s swaths of competent people abroad that are happy to take your (overpaid) place

How is it overpaid? Engineers provide a lot more value than they are getting paid. If anything, people abroad are underpaid.

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I’m on a slack channel with other startup founders and just this week I was seeing chatter about how asking rates for Eastern EU devs were skyrocketing lately

Can you give me an idea on what the rates are?

The answer is bigger than the question. Almost everyone in the West is overpaid because Western Society reaps the benefits of an underpaid working class on another continent. Out of sight, out of mind.

I don’t know if the west is overpaid or if it’s just that the people outside the west are underpaid. I think it’s more likely the latter.

Both can be underpaid, ya know?

I think it's less that some people are overpaid and more that some goods are too cheap (mostly the goods that the West has stopped producing in favor of outsourcing to underpaid working class on another continent).

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