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Re:Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and hone... by toolz on Saturday March 19, 2016 @04:22PM (#11320255)
Transparency solves that problem. If below average workers moved from business to business getting paid less than their peers, how long do you think they would consider themselves better than average?
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Re:Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and hone... by jeremyt on Saturday March 19, 2016 @04:24PM (#11320262)
Possibly forever, and I think it's very likely they develop a chip on their shoulder because the world is not properly valuing their skills.

Never underestimate the ability of people to come up with all kinds of reasons why they are being treated unfairly.

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Re:Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and hone... by toolz on Saturday March 19, 2016 @04:37PM (#11320322)
I think that's a negative bias. The majority of people behave rationally and while they may speak negatively in public, internally they will understand the pattern.

We have a tendency to put too much value in what people say rather than how they act. I'm confident actions would reflect people understanding their value in a transparent world, even if their words did not.

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Re:Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and hone... by retrogradeorbit on Sunday March 20, 2016 @12:54AM (#11321880)
I agree. Over the decades I have worked with a few below average engineers who were so deeply arrogant they simply refused to believe they weren't God's gift to engineering.

This is a small minority though.

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Re:Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and hone... by guroot on Saturday March 19, 2016 @04:28PM (#11320281)
That's a nice thought. But I think too much of our culture has been focused on assigning blame for these sort of things to the the "system".

I'm sure some would come to the conclusion you suggest, but I fear many would fall into a victim role and point fingers.

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