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Employees forget that they sell their labor. Sell your labor to the highest bidder.

Counterpoint: they sell ~8 hours of their day. Selling that to the highest bidder ignores that there's different environments that might be better or worse for everyone's general sense of fulfilment. IMO, chasing highest pay only is a recipe for an unhappy life that only pays off on the short term.

No one should sell themselves short, but choosing, say, a 100% worse environment or a dead-end technology stack for a 5% higher pay (or whatever) is not wise.

and choose the best, risk adjusted, choice over the long run. Subtract the costs (time, stress, health) and add the revenues (skills, $, network)

Why? My job is extremely easy with a great team and manager. I could get more, but I'd have to work in a high stress environment, and life is too short for that shit.

I think the grandparent was implying all other things being equal. If the highest bidder requires that you work in significally different and more difficult conditions, then it's not really comparable.

>My job is extremely easy with a great team and manager

Value comes in many forms. OP message shouldn't imply that money alone is the only variable in the equation of "am I compensated fairly".

The problem is evaluating the size of the bid. Salary is only one part of the equation and people rarely get wealthy on salary alone. There are multitude factors when evaluating the "bid" of the company and to actually understand what is valuable and what is not is the difficult part.

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