It is. We're getting paid peanuts compared to our American counterparts and we do the same work. What's worse is we pay higher taxes. The only way this changes is by European tech workers standing together and demanding matched salaries.
Irrelevant. Just because you work for a US company that does not mean your kids should go to US colleges.
As an employee I want to be paid the highest that anyone else is paid for the same work. More so if the value generated is the same regardless of location. Yet I can understand employers wanting to help maintain sustainable communities, even where cost of living is high.
Governments too want some control over their currencies and its value.
This is one hundred percent a problem of exploitation and cultural expectations and needs to change.
That said, Russian and Chinese developers had the same happening in companies in the UK.