I think Bruce Eckel started a blog about these issues because he had seen them so many times. From what I have seen it seems true more or less everywhere. Peopl

I think Bruce Eckel started a blog about these issues because he had seen them so many times. From what I have seen it seems true more or less everywhere. People are territorial and they see everything relatively. So in general its more important to a manager that a talented employee is held back from contributing value than that the employee deliver the value and possibly end up getting paid more than the manager. Then again there are exceptions. You will often hear very successful business people say "Success is about enabling people". I remember reading an article about one entrepreneur years ago saying that if you can get good people then don't be afraid to pay them more than you pay yourself. But of course the manager is just an employee where the entrepreneur is an owner. Maybe we should just go to a system with only owners and contractors (another kind of owner) and let the enlightened owners and the talented contractors win.