I generally agree with your take, although professional sports players have unions that seem to work well for them despite being skilled workers with large diff

I generally agree with your take, although professional sports players have unions that seem to work well for them despite being skilled workers with large differences in talent. I guess there's no hard requirement that unions get involved in pay negotiations, and that's the only one I know of that seems to have workers' pay in-line with actual market factors. It's not like Tom Brady has to get paid the same amount as a lesser-performing quarterback just because they've been doing it the same amount of years.