Yea one of the best devs I've worked with were Latin America. TFW a guy living in the mountains an hour away from Santiago knows Kafka and AWS better than everybody else

I don't think I've seen them work harder though. They were all very strict about 40 hours and were very aware of the class dynamics of boss and worker. Americans who have drank the Kool aid and obsessed with job titles and career prestige worked the hardest in my experience, closely followed by Chinese workers

It's a similar story with South Africa, which is why I think the US wants to get a deal that exempts US companies from certain labour laws and taxes, with a focus on affirmative action laws and policies, called BEE (black economic empowerment), at least as a media narrative. You have a lot of people that have been educated in STEM at local top schools and universities who are already integrated into "western culture" and use English as a lingua franca, who would do almost anything to work for a multinational corporation based in the USA, given the high levels of unemployment and youth unemployment (30% and 50% respectively), and the uncompetitive nature of South African industry on the global market. They could pay them a third or a quarter of what these high level workers earn in the US and they'd still live like kings and queens in South Africa. The "lucky ones" can even get to immigrate to the USA!