[adimitrov]

Says who? Says you. Based on what?

I hear this sentiment a lot, and its proponents usually don't spend any thought on disproving other views. Such as, maybe it's better to have everyone motivated well, instead of having a few people excessively motivated while the rest trudges along.

Maybe it depends on the field? Do you need superstars or are you only as fast as you slowest team mate?

And maybe, but I barely dare say it out loud here, maybe compensation has less to do with performance and more to do with who eats dinner/cracks a beer with whom. In this case, how would the motivation argument even hold?

I don't know which one is true. I wouldn't try to sound too convinced of any one of these unless I knew the situation of the business very well.