This is the direct consequence of propping up numbers of phds in international genitalia measuring contests. If I were an employer, why should I pay a postdoc

This is the direct consequence of propping up numbers of phds in international genitalia measuring contests. If I were an employer, why should I pay a postdoc a lot. There are so many of them on the market and identifying "good ones" from the chaff is difficult. Is the median postdoc actually worth 45k? (For reference when I was a postdoc I topped out at 35k and made more applying to a position advertised for BA biologists, and then took a "pay raise" being a lyft driver for a year and a half.