How is that still not predatory in the sense that you're then locking your skills related to that industry away for the rest of your/company's life? For what 2000? Personally the skills I have in my industry easily add 10k to 30k to my worth in my late 20's. I don't think any company can afford to make a fair compensation at scale to lock an employee out of working with any competitors aka being in the same industry again.