Lack of wage growth (and accompanying erosion of quality of life) is already a major issue. Why would you suggest that the employee pay a cost for accepting a

Lack of wage growth (and accompanying erosion of quality of life) is already a major issue. Why would you suggest that the employee pay a cost for accepting a fair workers agreement (no non-compete clause)? At least suggest that salaries be raised for people on non-competes. The value the employee is generating through this IP is always going to be considerably (orders of magnitude) larger than whatever their salary is - the company can afford to pay them more.