[ghaff]

Well, sure. If every attribute other than salary is absolutely identical, of course there's no reason to accept a lower wage. But everything else is pretty much never going to be equal when it comes to professional jobs.

[intellectronica]

Startups, or companies pretending to be startups, usually offer lower wages for doing essentially the same technical work.

[dasil003]

Even taking this as granted, everything around the work, the people, the processes, the vision will differ.