If Google can reward a cook, why can't a meat processing plant reward a butcher? Masters at their craft deserve to be rewarded when businessmen rely upon them to succeed.
Google can reward employees because they make monster profits.
If you can, you should get a job at Google and get a great salary (which is still a tiny sliver of Google's monster profits).
If you can't then you have to settle for lower paying job at a company that doesn't have monster profits like Google and therefore cannot pay you outsized salary.
Employees don't "deserve" anything other than the market salary.
It goes both ways. Employers don't "deserve" Google-level programmers for half the salary that Google is willing to pay. And I'm sure they would love to get great talent at reduced prices just like you would love to get great salary regardless of your talent and contribution to the business.
The market salary happens when both parties work to advance their self interest. "deserving" has nothing to do with it.
If you can, you should get a job at Google and get a great salary (which is still a tiny sliver of Google's monster profits).
If you can't then you have to settle for lower paying job at a company that doesn't have monster profits like Google and therefore cannot pay you outsized salary.
Employees don't "deserve" anything other than the market salary.
It goes both ways. Employers don't "deserve" Google-level programmers for half the salary that Google is willing to pay. And I'm sure they would love to get great talent at reduced prices just like you would love to get great salary regardless of your talent and contribution to the business.
The market salary happens when both parties work to advance their self interest. "deserving" has nothing to do with it.