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Once your FAANG company realises your they can hire someone who "works from home" for 5 figures instead of 7 figures, thanks to a modest cost of living in their different country, you are in real trouble.

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I heard that in the 1990s. Yet all the cheap Indians who were meant to eat my lunch are now expensive Indians I have lunch with.

I largely agree but would note that one thing which killed a lot of outsourcing projects were timeline and language barriers. If you’re in, say, Pacific time there’s still a lot of room to go down from Bay Area salaries while avoiding both of those problems. I think we’re about to see the largest experiment yet of how well people can really run remote development projects.

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Not sure. You wont get the best people by being cheap. If FAANGs are making monstrous profit they don’t want to rock the talent boat. If you have a company making crazy profit and the people making that happen get paid 5 figures those people just leave and get YC to pay 6 figures for a small slice of their next idea.

You still retain the timezone advantage for communicating with the bosses. Same language, too.

they can already do that.

Yeah I was going to say that ship sailed several years ago at least.

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