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When companies say they can't afford to pay you x, they mean they don't want to pay you x.
Yes, sure, perhaps the employee was being cheated, but pay transparency is not going to fix that, that just insures everybody is being cheated evenly.
The cheating happens when the profits of the company are not distributed to the people that run it, but to the people who own it.
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When companies say they can't afford to pay you x, they mean they don't want to pay you x.
Yes, sure, perhaps the employee was being cheated, but pay transparency is not going to fix that, that just insures everybody is being cheated evenly.
The cheating happens when the profits of the company are not distributed to the people that run it, but to the people who own it.