Paying the same will be unfair to those living in an expensive location, finding the means of living while others retain more for the same amount of job.
Could you explain to me how it is unfair for people who choose to live in expensive places that people who don't choose that lifestyle get paid exactly the same amount for the same work?
It's cute, you really think it is a choice to move to an expensive place for a high paying job?
Believe me, you have no choice, you MUST move there! Then work hard to hang on otherwise you are f*d, paying a lot just for your bare existence!
Also some are born there perhaps, all human connections tie them there...?
So the people who are living the life in the developing world are the ones who should take they pay hit because you want to socialise with hipsters?
Also, why must you move 'there'? I understand that my life is more expensive where I live than it is in the developing world, but I get a in return for living here. I wouldn't find it fair if a remote colleague made less money than I do just because of them living somewhere else.
But it is not that trivial.
Paying the same will be unfair to those living in an expensive location, finding the means of living while others retain more for the same amount of job.