Wealth inequality seems like it's a pretty serious societal problem right now so I don't really see a problem with depressing the salaries of top earners so that less skilled folks can get some more. I'd really love to see UBI but since socialism=bad we're unlikely to see that anytime soon.

I consider myself to be pretty skilled and would be happy to take a pay cut if I knew that money was mostly going to more junior folks (and not just being pocketed by corporations to be funneled into stock dividends).

Negotiation is an invaluable skill, as is a knowledge of self worth, but it's something that a lot of people have real issues with - it isn't taught in school and a lot of introverted people (this goes double for people on the autism spectrum) will have real lifetime issues developing it. I can't argue that negotiation is a large part of financial success in the modern world but it seems quite counter to how we'd like society to operate - I'd rather live in a world where wage transparency was a thing and wage advocacy could be contracted out.

IMO leaning on negotiation for compensation adjustment creates an unjust world.