Chinese developers are famous for making apps serving 1.4 billion people, with at most 1/3 salary of US, and the willingness to do 996 a whole year around.
I would be surprised that no company in the west take advanced of that.
The mythical man month exposed a wealth of problems in software development, only some of which have been addressed in the last 44 years (MMM was 1979, right?)
2000 miles and a language barrier do not help things.
I would be surprised that no company in the west take advanced of that.