And the businesses that thought that way were able to maintain the status quo by forbidding or at least strongly discouraging employees sharing compensation inf

And the businesses that thought that way were able to maintain the status quo by forbidding or at least strongly discouraging employees sharing compensation info. That's no longer legal in the US, and people are still playing catch up, but I think this is on its way out. As soon as it's easy for employees to _know_ that they've gotten the short stick they aren't going to stay quiet about it.