When you are negotiating your salary in the marketplace, the people sitting across from you are Bezos, Sergey Brin, Blackstone, Andreessen, the Saudi sovereign

When you are negotiating your salary in the marketplace, the people sitting across from you are Bezos, Sergey Brin, Blackstone, Andreessen, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and a long list of hedge funds and private equity firms. These are the (obscenely wealthy) people that you are allowing to arbitrage your salary. I doubt other underpaid workers are celebrating the fact that your salary differential is paying for champagne on a super yacht instead of going to your kid’s college fund or more family vacations. And I’m sure that the people/groups mentioned are pleased that they are able to pocket the difference en masse because of this economically irrational ethic.