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Which other unfair advantages? Another way to look at this is that the employee is selling the employer a service. When you buy something from a shop do you expect to name your price, or do you expect see a price label? In that case the seller almost always names their price first. Do you like going into shops where their are no prices listed?

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Shops are just one model of transacting.

But there are plenty of cases where sellers don't list their price and they have worked fine - think about the auction model for one.

As an aside.. when do we use auctions? We don't use it for commodity items (no sense in buying a pack of candy in auctions).

> Which other unfair advantages?

If you're unaware of how this issue negatively affects salaries for women and other minorities, I respectfully suggest you do a little more research on this topic. Here's a quick google hit, but there are many, many more resources: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220929-the-us-push-fo...

> Another way to look at this is that the employee is selling the employer a service.

Which would be a pretty ideological/libertarian way to present it. This isn't an auction; it's how people eat and put a roof over their head, and they have no choice but to play.

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