I think the forum is a unique case where it does not ask for your location data
I've seen freelancer platforms where the platform may ask for your location, the customers (those paying for work) only see the username and the portfolio - and the things the "workers" pubish about themselves in their profiles of course. There may be several models though.
Unifying salaries will not be good because it kills creativity and even in countries that give low salaries there are benefits besides the salary such as free housing or longer vacations or other differences.
Of course I'm not in favour of a completely unified salary. But for me for exactly the same work, a relatively similar salary or payment is justified despite the location of the worker. I don't understand what you meant with free housing/longer vacations, as that afaik are mostly benefits of high-salary countries (Europe ranks consistently in the first places when it comes to paid vacations).
[...] not all the communities can have equal access to cryptocurrency or infrastructure and for that some countries don't even legalize Bitcoin as of today.
Good points. However, I have some hope that these challenges tend to improve. For example, recently Bolivia has relaxed its crypto restrictions a lot, which should drastically improve the access to Bitcoin there.
I am not sure what prevents us for comparing the salaries in btc now. All you need is to convert said salaries to btc and compare.
Of course this is possible. But doing these conversions is not something people regularly do. I think the decision "which price I'm willing to offer to my customers" is influenced heavily by the "sense of value". And if a person from a low-salary country see salaries from people from other countries for the same work in the same currency (in this case, the
BTC), then this can increase the "sense of value" they perceive for the task.
If anything, this would just lead to getting paid less, because would you think that project manager would choose to pay more if they easily found an offer from overseas that 1/5th of it?
I believe this is happening for a long time already. Major companies do have the resources to compare salaries across the world, even if this needs lots of currency conversions. For the workers themselves this is much more difficult. Of course most workers are aware of the inequality, but often without consequences, and a part of the problem in my opinion is that the salary differences are not directly visible (only in some few cases like international freelancing).
I agree about worker protection, this is also a part of the puzzle. Bitcoin can only help with parts of this "balancing" task.
It's also not economically sustainable to use BTC as cash, when you benefit more by holding it. Economy/capitalism works best when people consume and don't hoard their money.
I read this argument a lot, but this changes dramatically if your income is also paid in
BTC (in comparison to the situation where you bought the Bitcoins). If you have a steady influx of Bitcoins, then it's also easy to spend them. Transaction fees are of course an issue, thats why we need Lightning and other L2s.
Look at Euro zone for example, you think people at Greece make the same amount of money as people in Germany does?
Just the Eurozone is an example that such a "balancing" is happening, although very gradually. My example here would not be Greece, which had a tremendous economic crisis in the 2010s, but the Eastern european countries which adopted the euro like Slovenia, Slovakia or Estonia. The differences between their salaries and the Western European nations like Germany or France were much higher in the 90s and 2000s. Of course the Euro area is special as also the common market policies play a major role in that balancing, and thus also countries like Poland are "balancing up". But I think at least a part of the process can be attributed to the Euro, it's not casual that several countries are currently trying to join that area.
When comparing salaries between Venezuela and the US, you need to consider their gross domestic products. The US produces significantly more per capita than Venezuela. I don't see how their currencies directly contribute to this inequality, aside from each central bank's interest rate policies.
Of course there are many factors in play and the "amount of goods produced" does also impact in the salary level. As I wrote in another answer above I don't think Bitcoin or any other "global currency" can solve the inequality problem by itself.
My theory is that it however could help with some factors. Apart from the "sense of value" issue I mentioned above, I also think previsibility for foreign investment would be a major factor. You just brought up the example of Venezuela, and in Argentina (and other countries with a fastly devaluating currency) the situation is very similar: Many companies which would have invested if the currency was more stable are not doing this due to the "devaluation cost", i.e. constant hedging and possible currency exchange barriers, which impacts in the equation when they calculate the profit they could achieve with the investment. Getting international credit is also perhaps easier with a global currency, as the "devaluation costs" impact in the capability of a country to re-pay debt.
