>Life here is much cheaper, I can go out with my girlfriend, eat something fancy, buy a 3 liters of beer and go see a movie with $25 and still have some money left.
But if you're good at software development you could be earning around $1k per day and retire in less than a decade. Are you really happy just chugging away like this for 40 years just so some rich CEO's can get even more money they can never spend?
That parable doesn't work very well when we're talking about someone working 40+ hours per week. If you can really live so well on $500 a month then just a year or two making actual market wage would be enough to finally do all the things this Mexican fisherman could do that the GP can't today.
But if you're good at software development you could be earning around $1k per day and retire in less than a decade. Are you really happy just chugging away like this for 40 years just so some rich CEO's can get even more money they can never spend?