Sorry to burst your schadenfreude bubble, but I've been living in SEA and charging European prices for freelance work for over five years now, during which time I've had several EU companies offer me full time work at EU wages. More and more, people are hired for their skills, work ethic, and so on, while their location becomes less and less important. Google is fighting the tide here, and the next generation of management will be more comfortable with remote work. Hopefully, that means in the near future a Guatemalan dev will get paid a similar amount to a European/US dev of equal skill. We're long overdue a reckoning in terms of location inequality.
I'd find it more convincing if you've been living in, say, Lisbon and charging Seattle prices. If I were hiring devs in Seattle, I'd be delighted to pay them EU wages.
It's unfortunately a tax nightmare for companies - even if you believe that it shouldn't be. Paying someone US dollars while the work in Guatamala might violate local laws.
