Am I a failure at a business person because my immediate (and obvious) conclusion was that if 1/2 people became miserable and other 1/2 weren't happier then the

Am I a failure at a business person because my immediate (and obvious) conclusion was that if 1/2 people became miserable and other 1/2 weren't happier then the solution was to have everyone at or as close as possible to the median salary rather than being secret and under/over paying a bunch of money grubbing twerps.