Just because you and 'some' of your coworkers thought programmers are 'ridiculously overpaid' doesn't mean all of your coworkers felt that way. As such, the sui

Just because you and 'some' of your coworkers thought programmers are 'ridiculously overpaid' doesn't mean all of your coworkers felt that way. As such, the suit is just that, for those other employees that felt gipped. The way your leverage mutually assured destruction here is just sugar coating the very nature of collusion like the telecomm companies. When no one lowers prices and compete fairly, the customers (and by analogy the programmers) loses out. So it doesn't just /look/ like evil collusion because it /is/ evil collusion. I just wanted to clarify to anyone reading this passage here.