You dont need to be from a “low wage” country to understand that oss has reduced scarcity and thus the cost of actual code has dropped to near zero. Code is everywhere, no one needs (to buy) more of it.
In a recent project I used standard libraries to connect IMAP, SMTP and web scraping. Nothing interesting. Just connecting tubes and a regular expression in the middle. And a for loop, to repeat it. Nothing interesting, but it's enough to be the computer wizard.