I didn't derides anyone. What I want to say is that when employers can't afford reasonable salary for developers, they cannot find any good ones, even they found ones, it's only matter of time they will leave. The problem here is more than salary, it is about attitude, employers trend to treat employees as cost rather than valuable asset. When people are treated like disposable tools, nobody would stay.
Why isn't that salary reasonable? It seems like you're being ethnocentric and judging that salary based on your own home and your own salary.
When confronted with cost of living data for Taiwan, you pivot and say that people are treated like disposable tools -- but how is this different than 90% of IT in America? Not everyone works for a progressive, modern startup, and the trenches of American Corporate IT aren't known for their mid-20 something's hipster cultures like Google et al. Very much a cold calculation where people are treated like assets.
