"Salary is related to the value of an employee's labour." That would be lovely, but I think salary is related to what the employee can get away with paying the

"Salary is related to the value of an employee's labour." That would be lovely, but I think salary is related to what the employee can get away with paying the employee, regardless of the "real" value. It's not a totally churlish example to point out how little good mothers get paid by the state for their value of their work. There might be a similar reconsideration of how living expenses are reached.