Companies have to increase wages as people job hop to seek better opportunities. Look at the Apple hiring/salary fixing fiasco that got Steve Jobs in hot water

Companies have to increase wages as people job hop to seek better opportunities. Look at the Apple hiring/salary fixing fiasco that got Steve Jobs in hot water about a decade ago--Apple was actively colluding with all the tech companies to agree not to hire or poach employees so their salaries wouldn't rise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... Big companies love the free market, except when it means they have to pay more money to employees...