You had a college puke charging you $750 per month from Argentina. You were so clueless that you didn't even consider researching the average salary of a dev in Argentina. You were getting scammed!
THIS DOES NOT EXONERATE YOU FROM YOUR CRIME OF THEFT!!
I hope you don't get involved with idiots in the future.
I'm very sorry it came to this. Especially because your trust as investor is betrayed. That means that tomorrow someone with good idea seeking investor will have big trouble to get to you. After failed trust next person coming gets the bullet.
But that isn't what I wanted to comment. I want to comment this bullshit about average dev wages in certain countries. I'm a dev and this is poking my eyes. Why the fuck you people think that my work is worth less if I live in a third world country? That's why you constantly get fucked by these devs from India, Vietnam and similar countries. You pay them less because you think that is average in these shitty places and they will be happy with it. But that's not real reason, in fact you pay them less because they are crappy developers. I know that because after that you come to me to pay even more to fix their shit in your code. I saw that because I fixed shit code for years. Shit code written for $5-$15 per hour. And also I fixed shit code from an Austrian dev which was paid 160€ per hour just because he was Austrian. So, although I'm not talking about this particular dev from Argentina, please stop thinking in this way. Pay devs for what they are worth, not for from which country they are.
Does Samsung or GE pay US wages to employees at developing or third world countries? No, they do not. Why? They pay the local competitive wages.
What the dev from Argentina was asking was payment equal to a 10+ year experienced programmer. This kid was a college puke!
So, you compare high skilled engineers with Samsung factory workers? OK, that tells much about you. Good luck with employing cheap Indian labor.
I already stated that "I'm not talking about this particular dev from Argentina". I don't know how much is he worth. I didn't interviewed him. Paying $750 per month to anybody will not get you any good code. Think about it, probably you spend more in Starbucks each month.
I know that the topic here is kaliju's thievery and dishonesty. But I just wanted to stop by and tell other good devs, don't work for peanuts, ask as much as any other dev from US, Switzerland or Norway would ask for the same job and for the same skill set.
@baah are you an ass kisser or what?
Good devs can get whatever they ask for. Simply because there are no enough good devs.
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