[s3r3nity]

> You're paid to create value for your employer.

This pretends that there isn't a market for labor, with its own supply curve.

For example, the relative value you generate is not enough to value your wages. Else Marketers and Sales teams would make MUCH more than engineers. But for a given level of quality, there are a lot more marketers that can do as good of a job, and the elasticity is low (e.g. skills are "easy to learn" or develop in a short time frame) - hence why marketers tend to be paid lower than the average engineer with same level or years of experience. In the latter case, engineers are in short supply and supply elasticity is high (you can't just move from barista to engineer overnight.)