No. If a company wants a non compete for X amount of time, the company can pay me for X amount of time. The reason companies are able to be so abusive towards

No. If a company wants a non compete for X amount of time, the company can pay me for X amount of time. The reason companies are able to be so abusive towards their employees is that they can mandate no compete for any level of employee despite the _vast_ majority of employees having no magical knowledge that company. The result is that an employee can’t move to a higher paying job, and so their current employer can pay them even less.