Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay

Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by samsonradu on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:38PM (#12212155)

But is it ok for competition to kill the value of developers work (in the benefit of managers/founders and whomever else)? The actual point I think is to get developers to understand they need to lift the bar higher because it's now set too far from the value they actually create.

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by hnal943 on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:26PM (#12212586)

Competition drives down prices. Everyone likes that fact except for when it is applied to their own price.

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by samsonradu on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:26PM (#12213547)

Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival. So why do people believe that competition is healthy? The answer is that competition is not just an economic concept or a simple inconvenience that individuals and companies must deal with in the marketplace. More than anything else, competition is an ideology—the ideology—that pervades our society and distorts our thinking. We preach competition, internalize its necessity, and enact its commandments; and as a result, we trap ourselves within it—even though the more we compete, the less we gain. - Zero To One, The ideology of competition

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