Shipping, delivery of a product/useful labor, is my definition of value far more than experience. If you're a nobody but I can trust you to Get Shit Done (tm),

Shipping, delivery of a product/useful labor, is my definition of value far more than experience. If you're a nobody but I can trust you to Get Shit Done (tm), you are more valuable to me than a greater number of "Steve Jobs" who I can't rely on as much. As such, the last thing I want to do is remove a hugely meaningful incentive someone has to push hard and differentiate themselves. Now this certainly has moral pitfalls, if you use it as a carrot to get people to keep upping the ante on each other, but at some point we have to trust the autonomy of our workers to be able to say no. (I believe that management can help with this as well concurrent with keeping salary-based differentiation, by things such as enforcing not working outside of work hours, mandated vacation time, salary transparency and clear metrics for what achieving more/success means, etc)