You pay according to location for the same bottle of Coke? How is work pay different?
Why shouldn't payment for work be tied to local price ranges and cost of living?
Why shouldn't payment for work be tied to local price ranges and cost of living?
Aren't you commenting on a post about remote work? Their job market is global (within limitations.)
What's the market in this context is of course the interesting question.
Remote programming work, on the other hand, is the opposite: At least the demand side is, as this whole discussion exemplifies, global -- Gitlab isn't local to all the locations where their remote employees live. (If it were, they wouldn't be remote.)
But then the employees' supply of labour isn't local either: They're offering their labour to Gitlab, a non-local employer (and potentially to other non-local employers too).
It's utterly baffling how much of this discussion seems to be assuming that Gitlab (or other remote employers) play on a global market, but their employees on a local one. If that were the case, how could any of those employees ever be employed by any of these employers? The very fact that any transactions -- i.e. employment contracts -- ever arise shows that both parties are playing on the same market.
Why should it be? You pay someone enough to get them to work for you instead of someone else. That's the sole reason you pay someone anything at all. And there's no reason to pay them any more than that. How do local prices and cost of living fit into that equation?
If we enter a world where most SWEs work remotely and few other companies are paying location-based, we might see GitLab change their tune. For now, they're competing first and foremost against local jobs.
How do you expect to ever raise the standard of living in poor countries if you exploit their labor for pennies on the dollar. No different from apple and other who move manufacturing to cheap labor.
A real leader in remote work would try to be a part of the solution, not actively fight against it.
Like Gitlab then?
'We keep up with mediocre local jobs' is hardly 'world leader' is it?
The whole reason DVDs had regions was to price the same DVD differently based on location. As long as companies can, they will price and pay different amounts for the same thing based on local factors.
So, you were saying that's the kind of "leadership" Gitlab is boasting about, or...?
It's cheaper for them to hire people while things around foreign works are going up in price. The pay should be adjusted accordingly.