Interesting. Often I hear that you are only worth what value you can provide in any one role. Like for me working in bioinformatics, I am paid much less than if

Interesting. Often I hear that you are only worth what value you can provide in any one role. Like for me working in bioinformatics, I am paid much less than if I took my skills to pure tech. There is only so much value my skills can provide in this industry, but if I went to tech my skills could provide 3-4x the value. Despite being able to show I could get paid much more at a tech-company, my company will not pay me more. However, you are claiming that the opposite is also true. You are not paid based on the value you can provide to an organization, but based on how much you COULD provide to other organizations. So I think you are wrong. These are all just attempts to justify why companies are averse to highly paid employees, but will happily spend 10x a key employee's salary on a new machine or on a month worth of consultants.