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I prefer inequality when it comes to pay because I will work harder than the majority.

The purpose of this law is salary transparency, not necessarily on salary equality across positions in the company.

It makes it so that applicants can see what all employers are offering up front, which incentivizes the employers to be more competitive on salary offer if they want applicants to choose to apply there.

Salary equality for equivalent positions within the company, as you're describing it, would require companies to publicly list what each of their existing employees are making, which is a completely different thing than what this law is requiring.

Nice effort champ but we were looking for smarter workers this quarter

Is this satire?

This is the belief that roughly 50% of voters in the United States share.

...and by coincidence, 50% of the people do work harder than the other 50% ;>)

Which 50%?

The top 50% of workers ranked by how hard they work, of course.

I'm sure more than 50% of voters believe that not every job should have the same salary.

Of this whole tangent is mostly a non-sequitor because that's not what the law requires or is an attempt to enforce.

I was always the hardest worker in my class, but never found a job because companies said I would want to be paid too much, meanwhile I told them my salary requirements were zero because I was homeless. Was that satire?

Says every single person I've ever worked with.

My coworkers are the busiest people on the planet.

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