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In an asymmetrical bargaining situation (1 employer - many employees) transparency benefits the side with smaller arity / greater upfront commitment. Employees know how much developers are paid, and they know how badly they need you, but because they also know that there are applicants who absolutely need a job, it's in their best interest to not reveal any of that info.
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Deception is inherent to bargaining. Information can be forcibly revealed with external pressure from eg. the state, but unless a lot of energy is spent chasing down individual violations (as is the case in eg. Austria), this simply incentivizes de-emphasizing or obfuscating the public information. For example, forcibly revealing salaries often motivates companies to reframe more of your salary as bonuses or benefits.
an economy where jobs hide their salaries is confusing
you want people with skills but you refuse to signal how much you want people with those skills
if you actually are clear and honest about how much you want those skills, people would learn those skills to sell them to you...
but instead they would rather play poker and tell you they don't want the skills... while complaining to someone else (government, universities, whatever) behind citizen's backs about how lazy the average citizen is for not having the skills -- yet they refuse to disclose how much they want said skills to make said skills a target for the citizen to want to achieve to receive the incentive of the moneys that citizens require for living
self-fulfilling retardation
deception is the root of all evil I swear
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