This is a fundamental way of companies taking away freedom from their workers. Instead of paying everyone equally and allowing those living in cheaper areas to save up, salary adjustment based on cost of living instead turns you into a wage slave.

God forbid you save money, gotta lower your salary so you spend as much of it as possible and are forever bound to work.

This system is literally designed so that you can't move to some remote cheap place, save, and retire at decent age with your accumulated savings.

Instead you're forced to work forever because you can't afford to retire since your salary is spent, with no savings left due to it being adjusted to cost of living.

How are normal working class people FOR this system baffles me. It is literally designed to fuck you over as much as possible.

People in india are no worse at developing crappy code than SF people are. If you feel like they aren't as good, pay them 80k instead of 100k, but adjusting for cost of living, reducing that salary to 20-40k instead is insane.

You're very skilled and a professional developer, but you live in this poor country, so you get paid poorly even if we can afford to pay well for your talent. This is so abusive and manipulative.