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by sneak 3976 days ago
What other people make comes out of the limited budget for all employees. If you deliver twice the value, it is only fair that you should receive twice the pay.
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There's nearly never a good system of measurement to determine that. The more elaborate the system, probably the less trustworthy it is. And people game them.

Then they try to gain a position to stop change because that would threaten their position. Once the firm reaches total hidebound status, it's merely a matter of time.

I mean - "second prize is a set of steak knives"....