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Comment by Chinjut | Hacker News Reader

It's incredible in these comments that so many of you who work in the industry on the employee side are arguing against having more transparency for the employee, and for having more leverage in the negotiating process for the employer instead. I want all the advantage as an employee that I can get. Any secret withheld from me is not to my advantage.

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In 2022, you have to assume a fair amount of activity on popular boards/forums/subreddits/twitter etc. has been purposefully influenced by nefarious parties.

In more concrete terms, I do think there are a fair amount of bots/paid-commenters on HN who push for anti-progressive agenda which helps maintain status quo.

I mean, you don’t even need to reach that far.

Many commenters here are either currently on the employer side of a salary negotiation, or imagine that they will be some day.

The temporarily embarrassed millionaires ;-)

It's the old, "what if one day I'm the billionaire, then it might harm me!" combined with pride if they already have a high salary (in their opinion).

I think for most people external tools like levels.fyi are already good enough in that they provide a salary range with sufficient accuracy. Of course these same people would hope that the other candidates haven't heard of levels.fyi so that companies can lowball them to have more budget for the salaries of those who have heard of levels.fyi.

It's just selfishness, not collective action.

It's misguided selfishness because other people raising their price would raise yours too.

You also see this sentiment with other topics related to hiring, like working 2+ jobs. Somewhat amusing.

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