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Because that salary is great in India which probably has at least 10x developers than Spain. And with that money you can really hire really good Indian developers who can speak English well enough, slog hard unlike the pampered Europeans and are hungrier to prove themselves in general.

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I'm not sure why you are being down-voted but I have suspicions.

But you are not wrong. Sure there are lots of Indian labor shops that have tarnished the reputation of specifically-Indian outsourcing, but there are also plenty of -very- smart Indians (and others globally.)

I get that this out-sourcing harms workers in high-cost-of-living countries, but then again they're the ones who promote remote-work, while at the same time demanding salaries well above their country median.

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