>In today’s model potential employees are required to negotiate with themselves (as a result of being unaware of the qualifications, expected incoming, etc. of

>In today’s model potential employees are required to negotiate with themselves (as a result of being unaware of the qualifications, expected incoming, etc. of the pool). We wonder why salaries remain stagnant... To be clear, you have no actual basis to believe that asymmetric bargaining power (as you defined it) is the reason for stagnant wages. This is just something you reasoned through and it feels right to you.. correct? And you just say things ... what do you mean employees are unaware of the market - from other job seekers, to competitive? That is completely untrue. When you're looking for a job, you are very aware of the range of salaries you are expected to be offered for positions you seek. I literally just had someone decline a position because our offer was lower than what they were offered by other local company. Where was this asymmetric advantage you speak of? I have no idea what CEO pay has to do with anything except that this is a kitchen sink approach to argumentation where you just throw anything against the wall and hope something sticks.