I suspect China or Russia don't have higher salaries, they still manage to build their own alternatives. And Airbus builds better planes than Boeing with European salaries.

I'm sure that with a bit of protectionism, we would build our tech as well as anybody else.

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u8080 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Tech jobs in IT in Moscow are paid(net) relatively similar to what you could get in EU.

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nazgob 4 hours ago | parent [-]

So not US salaries.

	▲	u8080 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed, but cost of life is different as well. People usually compare US Bay area net salaries to Western EU salaries - but there are so many different things to consider as well(rent, insurances, taxes, etc) which imo spoils any constructive comparasion.