“I suspect that the culture of keeping our salaries secret was deliberately created by the 1% to keep wages low.” I often exchange salaries with people and one

“I suspect that the culture of keeping our salaries secret was deliberately created by the 1% to keep wages low.” I often exchange salaries with people and one thing I have noticed that the people who were against transparency because they thought they had negotiated well often turned out to be at the lower range. Usually after exchanging salaries it turned out that a lot of people had been blatantly lied at by management. It’s much easier to negotiate if you really know what the common numbers are.