You don't negotiate in a vacuum. If you participate in writing that algorithm that exerts downward pressure on salaries generally (because it's more efficient/

You don't negotiate in a vacuum. If you participate in writing that algorithm that exerts downward pressure on salaries generally (because it's more efficient/effective, and it's applied at the level of a tech behemoth with a lot of influence), you're incrementally lowering the baseline from which you and everyone else negotiate. You're basically arming the other side of the negotiating table--and that other side is already a multi-billion dollar unicorn. At some point, you'd think a basic sense of self-interest would remain. I swear, if someone held a contest to design a better rope for hanging engineers, we'd fall all over ourselves trying to win. If someone kickstarted that idea, they'd need new stretch goals in an hour.