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Sometimes, I help acquaintances from China and India tech cos apply for Singapore tourist visas (citizens can apply for others). They have to send me their salary info to do that. Without fail, the people who work at the top companies in these countries make far more than the median U.S. salary, in USD.

They have no interest in coming to the U.S. to make an average Silicon Valley salary (they already make close to this number, and live in places where this goes further).

‘Everyone is a wage slave!!’ Is a lot of concern commenting, ultimately rooted in the exceptionalist belief that everyone wants to come to the opportunity to come to the U.S.

Maybe it was true 20 years ago, it’s certainly not as true now.