I have a devils advocate argument: AI spend doesn't need to scale with salary.

If a company was OK with paying 10k a month for an employee in the US because they considered their work more valuable. And the same company is only willing to spend 300 per month on someone in a 3rd world country, because they consider the work to be lower quality.

Wouldn't it be reasonable to consider a situation where the same company would be willing to only spend 100 per month more on the 10k employee to make them a bit faster. At the same time be willing to spend 700 per month on the 300 employee, if it levels out their capabilities and makes them nearly as valuable as the 10k employee?

-- This argument is riddled with assumptions, but I do feel like it's one possible direction that some companies might try to take.