My guess is that that sentiment arises from the meritocratic attitude that if you are disproportionately talented you should be compensated much much more. And

My guess is that that sentiment arises from the meritocratic attitude that if you are disproportionately talented you should be compensated much much more. And I get that. To a point. I don't like when corporations collude to artificially suppress wages either. Or when information asymmetry is used to keep an engineer's salary low or prevent negotiating higher salaries. I'll read that discussion.