Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more

Your salary would be a full 10-20% higher with average turnover numbers if it weren't wasted on modern tech recruiting practices. And your company would quickly have less than average turnover number to boot. You'd get organic interest, and would properly pay attention to employee and manager referral.

Hiring practices are almost entirely cargo cult, and much more value for companies is being destroyed in all these terrible HR practices that have been latched on to. To me it appears like empire building and a complete lack of understanding in how and who works.

In practice, they will probably not do that as the HR team is busy with other things and the lawsuit might be bad PR, although a hiring manager that wants to get back to you for doing that might have the HR department sue you, legally they could do that.

What are engineer wages in China, the Phillipines, India, ... ? Oh wait ...

Second: with opening up markets, ... if there is one well-known fact in economics it's that when money can move over a wider area it concentrates into fewer hands. The bigger the markets operated, the fewer rich there are. And therefore, the more "ultra" the ultra-rich are. The shareholder "wealth transfer" seems to me to be this effect playing out.

That explains some of it. And that's with the minimal opening up of borders that has occurred over the past 2 decades (ie. mostly the EU and America, and in terms of population it's not that much).

That's a bit of a question I have for globalists : global average wage is $2000. Not per month, not net after tax. Not actual dollars. That's yearly, before tax, PPP dollars, not actual dollars. (PPP dollars means it's $2000 worth of, say, food (say strawberries or big macs), but it's actually only $400 worth of things like Gold or perhaps more relevant, iPads/Phones, that have global prices)

If one opens up global labor migration, that's the average wage that will be seen worldwide, and that's the expected result. Note: I am NOT saying that letting 1% of people migrate will drop wages like a stone immediately. But it will move in that direction. Nor am I saying that this has anything to do with work attitudes or ...

The "big secrets" about the economy that must be denied because they are thoroughly at odds with policy that we want to pursue:

1) there is a global oversupply of labor. You could pick ~16% of humans worldwide, disappear everyone else, and have almost zero effect on the economy. That means wages everywhere (even in places with dismal wages like Bangladesh) are too high in market terms. And I would like to point out that at least 2/3rds of those 16% work for governments, directly or indirectly, and "if everyone just behaved correctly" we also wouldn't need them.

(and note: this cannot be fixed with minimum wage laws for obvious reasons)

2) The global economy is demand-limited. Producing more goods would NOT result in more sales. We have "everything we want" (in economic terms, that means everything you're willing to work extra for). This means, loosely stated, that the above problem does not just apply to workers, but to companies in general as well.

It's an escalating problem in Eastern Europe in general. Our politicians are way too greedy. They lost all perspective. They try being a bit more insolent since the last year, they sit and wait -- no revolts, no fires, no pitchforks. So hey, these people don't mind! Let's get EVEN MORE money from them! Sadly it's how it has been going ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. Many elderly people say: "It was not all sunshine and rainbows back then either but at least the people had everything necessary to live respectful lives". They do have a point.

Thank the gods for internet and for me being a programmer ever since teenager. Otherwise I would probably live off social benefits as well.

It's very easy to demean people for being lazy or unmotivated or non-ambitious. But the reality is, the best career advancement ~85% of the people around here can hope for is an awful job with 2-3 hours of commuting in total for the day, for an income that exceeds the bare minimum needs with 5-10%. So it's pretty normal many decide not to bother, or to turn to petty crime.