Thinking again about how every tech company I know of sets their salary ranges by paying Radford or whoever to give them salary data from every other tech company and then peg their compensation to some percentage of the average for a given role, e.g. 15% below market average.
Thinking about how the only difference between that and collusion to depress wages is explicitly agreeing not to raise them, and how the incentives to not deviate even without an agreement are still there and acting on every good capitalist.
Thinking about how tech workers generally don't have access to this data broadly.
Thinking about how salaries in these systems are split up by job names, which are not standardized across companies in a lot of cases, such as when I heard a job role at one of my old jobs was actually being paid like 20% less compared to their peers at other companies despite being told they were being paid 25% more because the person in HR who pulled their data used the wrong job name.
