> The general principle is that an employee has to cost less than the money they bring in. That's not strictly true. If you have two programmers, one produces

> The general principle is that an employee has to cost less than the money they bring in. That's not strictly true. If you have two programmers, one produces $80 in value per hour and the other only $40 in value per hour you can still afford to pay both $60/hr each. This happens all the time because worker productivity is uneven and some jobs are more important/impactful than others. The requirement that revenue exceed costs is only true in aggregate, so the effect of increasing low-wage employee cost is to reduce profits.