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Capitalism and fiduciary duty prevents employers from paying people their market value when they are content enough to stay.

An employee who does not do the effort to re-peg their labor time to market rates for their skill level is implicitly consenting to a prior agreement (when they were hired).


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Daishiman01/21/2025

That is an extremely short-sighted view on what is essentially an iterated game where the domain knowledge employees have drastically increases their value to the company over time.

klodolph01/21/2025

Funny how fiduciary duty in these contexts is overwhelmingly short-sighted.

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