[kerkeslager]

> This is obviously not the case for a majority of companies and anecdotes don't help.

That isn't obvious at all. The US has the one of the highest pay gaps of any developed nation. Our largest companies with the richest executives have employees on food stamps. I'm not being cynical, I'm talking about reality, and I'm not going to shut up about it just so you can maintain your comfortable naivete on this issue.

> Everyone is for the highest pay possible until they run their own company and have to provide payroll.

If you can't pay your workers a living wage your business has failed in the only way I care about.

[fragmede]

> The US has the highest pay gap of any nation.

This doesn't contradict your point, but fwiw the pay gap of quite a few other nations come before the US. In terms of RP, the US ranks about 35th, behind many African and Asian nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

[brnt]

You left a key word out in the quote. Nobody wants to compete with Saudi Arabia when it comes to equality.

[kerkeslager]

In fairness to fragmede, I was editing my post when they responded.