The remote work market will trend towards  location-independence.<p>Differential pricing cannot last in a fungible market. The companies that offer $100k and get $300k value from each employee will eventually out-compete those that offer $100-200k and get $300k value.<p>It&#x27;s the same mechanism behind free markets defeating other forms of discrimination (I use this in the general, non-legal sense). If most companies pay women less because that&#x27;s the market, eventually the non-discriminating outliers will do better and the market adjusts to the more efficient reality.<p>The timing may be unknown, but the movement towards a non-discriminating equilibrium in fungible markets is not.