People from the West always complain when people from the developing world are hired to do work for people in the west.

They got angry about China, the Philippines, India, Kenya.

Oddly, it’s never the people in those countries complaining that they got a better paying job!

Only rich people who think, apparently, that this new middle class ought to be kicked back to the farm fields.

> They are being exploited. They live in a lower cost-of-living country

So tech companies should be barred from hiring anyone outside the Bay Area? Because hiring someone in Texas or Arizona is necessarily exploitation?

Yeah but ironically it's actually the workers in the US who are being exploited. The workers in the developing countries are largely beneficiaries since they get access to wages and a labor market far beyond their local region. (Obviously the companies still benefit the most.)

Shouldn't pay be scaled to the locale? Note also the role here is fungible- Waymo could move to another location if they chose.