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I think it's brilliantly fair. You get what you can negotiate for. Seems like a perfect way to do things to me.

• danbruc 11y ago
  You are exploiting the supply and demand situation but how does that imply you deserve it? What makes your 40 hours more valuable than someone others 40 hours besides the difference in demand? Shouldn't someone doing unpleasant or dangerous work get paid better than someone sitting in an air-conditioned office independent of the required skills and supply and demand situation?
  • johnbabboozle 11y ago
    No I don't believe in any of that. I believe the only way to determine what someone should be paid is to keep offering money until someone you think is good enough takes the job, or it until it stops being worth offering the job at that level. Anything else is artificial and causes more pain than good. And that's despite it being nobody's business how much I get paid or how much my company choses to pay me.
    • danbruc 11y ago
      Until someone takes the job or it isn't worth it - that's entirely supply and demand based. I neither argue that this is something that doesn't work nor do I think I can suggest a better alternative. I just argue that this is not fair from a moral point of view because I see no good reasons that investing an hour of your lifetime cleaning toilets is any less valuable than investing an hour of your lifetime developing software.