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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by WalterBright on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:06PM (#34187822)
The job of a cost accountant is to quantify these things. If the business gets it wrong, then the business does poorly or even goes out of business.

Supply+Demand certainly does determine employee compensation. But consider that there is no demand for workers who would cost more than the value they add. If the worker was producing far more value than he was paid, then the worker will be enticed away by some other business offering him more money.

So, you can see how S+D nudges employee compensation towards being paid according to what value they produce.

Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by qwytw on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:58PM (#34190587)
> But consider that there is no demand for workers who would cost more than the value they add

In general yes. But as as some of the venture capital funded growth companies have shown us in recent years these values can stay detached for quite a while.

But yeah over longterm I'd you to be mostly right.