[Hytosys]

Hierarchy requires justification, and inequality requires justification, since always and forever.

You should be required to try to convince someone working three manual labor jobs and making $40k a year that your $150k salary for making CRUD apps in your underwear is morally justifiable.

[zelos]

Because the value of the output of the person making CRUD apps is presumably worth more than $150k to their employer, right? If a company pays its employees more than the value of their output, they'll go out of business.

[Hytosys]

I think this is tangential, but you're very correct! This alone makes you question the morality of capitalism. Your employer necessarily steals some of the value that you create, otherwise you would have no worth to the employer and you would either be fired or the employer would close up shop.

[BigJono]

No, you shouldn't.

Wages aren't a hierarchy, they're supply and demand. The only reason why someone earning 150k would have to justify their wage to someone earning 50k is if the person earning 50k wasn't afforded the same opportunities as the person earning 150k.

[Hytosys]

Wages are absolutely hierarchical. The people who have higher wages have higher rank/status/authority.

You just pushed the blame off to the market, which needs the exact same moral justification.

[chongli]

If ever a person wonders whether or not they're being paid fairly all they need do is imagine the scenario where they quit. The difficulty and financial losses felt by their employer should strongly correlate to their pay.

[aaronhoffman]

The Employer does not "steal" from the Employee. There is an employment contract, the transaction is voluntary. Being an Employer has greater risk, and half of society hates you.

[Hytosys]

There is no voluntarism in slavery, even if it's of the wage variety.

But yes, sure! The employers are the oppressed class. All of us plebeians are so ungrateful of their estate inheritance -- er, brave risks. But don't worry for them! They can hire "domestic workers" to dry their tears with million dollar banknotes.