The ship and kidnapping reference to slavery is in poor taste, It might be easier to get your point across and help people be more open to exploring your perspective if you weren't so easy and loose with colloquialisms that are rooted in something that likely doesn't represent you.
And generally, when someone takes a criminally low level of pay for their high skill labor, all workers, domestic and international, suffer.
[0] This is the other side of the coin, career American engineers being fired and "forced"(for their severance) to train cheaper Replacements https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff... And Disney is just one example - tons of US companies "clean house" when they get frustrated at a high operating budget.
All labor, skilled or not, local or not, deserve basic dignity and respect.
The reality sadly is some groups have to work much harder for much less and it is leveraged against not only them, but other groups too.
Seeing freelancer rates worldwide slowly creep up may be a significant of things to come. The cheaper labor is getting g more specialized and expensive.
I fully agree. I hope these rates increasing will help the talent in this entire industry price itself better.