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Re:Reddit CEO eliminates salary negotiations for new employees by Dylan16807 on Monday April 06, 2015 @06:06PM (#9330970)
Treating everyone exactly the same still doesn't fix being socialized to negotiate less hard.

Is it actually better for capitalism to pay people based on negotiation rather than job performance? Is that a settled discussion in economics? (Obviously negotiation skill plays some role in overall skill, but that's not an answer to the question.)

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Re:Reddit CEO eliminates salary negotiations for new employees by cracell on Monday April 06, 2015 @07:25PM (#9331269)
How could you pay someone by job performance?

Anything you use to measure their job performance then becomes the metric that is optimized for. And the things you can easily measure are almost never the important things that you need out of an employee.

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Re:Reddit CEO eliminates salary negotiations for new employees by Dylan16807 on Monday April 06, 2015 @08:25PM (#9331399)
It's possible that negotiation is the least bad option of what to measure, but that's a far cry from being a capitalist ideal.
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