I hope such hardball tactics will set up those companies to fail at their digital transformation they are undertaking anyways.

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.