The same janitorial, wait staff, and gas station attendant work in different locales pays based upon the local prevailing wage. Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer?
Did they write less code or contribute less bug fixes?
Is the pay based upon output or businesses ability to manufacture consent in workers?
Americans are battered spouses who would be wise to force austerity on CEOs rather than the other way around. Indeed, look at the wins teacher strikes and workers sitting at home right now, have on wages and competition.
They need workers (when humans believed in religion as our social temple they were called “flocks”).
We’re filling in the area of a perimeter originally defined by Bible thumpers and dead men of a classist perspective. Workers build the world.
Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed uses a forced importation metaphor, of high minded aristocratic/imperialist expectations on locals. It’s one of my favorites to point folks at.
It’s simple. They don’t have to, but then when someone in Bali will do the same work for less, why wouldn’t the company mix shift that way over time?
Because, you’re not competing for the talent pool of Podunk, KY, you’re competing for the entire globally-connected internet-capable talent pool. And if you’re not willing to pay equal talent what they’re worth regardless of their location, someone else is.