You can get a closer view of this sentiment in action within communities built on open source with distributed governance. Very many communities in the blockchain space routinely discuss how to compensate the development work necessary, and the recurring theme is that people imagine a nonexistent cheap developer:
An engineer with in Micronesia with specialized skillsets.
Try to convince these communities about the need for a well compensated team of people including product managers and designers all making 6-figures and honestly people just don’t believe you. The truth is that cost of living discussion doesn’t even matter, people should be compensated on the value they bring (and in those communities that is very easy to quantify.)
This has wildly slowed down many projects as UI and usability are completely neglected.
Its pretty much only been one year that an engineer in this space can reliably land compensation packages somewhat competitive to a tour in NAAAM
An engineer with in Micronesia with specialized skillsets.
Try to convince these communities about the need for a well compensated team of people including product managers and designers all making 6-figures and honestly people just don’t believe you. The truth is that cost of living discussion doesn’t even matter, people should be compensated on the value they bring (and in those communities that is very easy to quantify.)
This has wildly slowed down many projects as UI and usability are completely neglected.
Its pretty much only been one year that an engineer in this space can reliably land compensation packages somewhat competitive to a tour in NAAAM