If compensation was simply measured by productivity relative to your co-workers - and let us assume this is not a zero-sum game, and that your compensation inde

If compensation was simply measured by productivity relative to your co-workers - and let us assume this is not a zero-sum game, and that your compensation independent from company revenue - wouldn't the most proficient and productive programmers seek to work with much less productive co-workers? Simply because they'd come out at the top, and get most compensation. Compare that to joining a "all-star" team, where there's much less variance. You'd get paid less - because the distance between best and worst programmer is much smaller?