I'd rather make $100K than $80K. Period. At those ratios, my neighbors just don't enter into the equation. Now, I might be uncomfortable making $100K when my

I'd rather make $100K than $80K. Period. At those ratios, my neighbors just don't enter into the equation. Now, I might be uncomfortable making $100K when my neighbors made $400K. That's an identifiable difference, and it would really mark me as the poor person in the neighborhood. But a 20% difference from the mean? I wouldn't even notice it.