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> It should be about the value I bring to the company, not where I live.

But they are not hiring you for "value", you are just a body in a seat filling a "role".

Real game to play is: you ask for X money, they propose Y money, agree and do Y amount of work and not the X amount of work. It's entirely reasonable to "quite-quit" even at non-minimum-salary compensation levels.

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Then they should hire someone else. There are cheaper bodies for filling seats than mine.

And they do. Have you not seen all the whining of Google veterans cut after their recent lay-offs?

It's sad that companies like Google these days are more concerned with filling seats than with writing good software.

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