I see your "B/S Alert" icon. I'm calling B/S as well. Let's start with a question: What makes you have any idea whatsoever that any piece of legislation establishing an office of bureaucrats to address your perceived problem can identify and rectify the "proper" winners and losers in the market, as you see them, and rectify things so that only those who have "profited unfairly," as you see them, and only they, are "penalized" to the extent you believe "fair" and only those who have been "unfairly" discriminated against, as you see them are rewarded in a manner commensurate with their supposed injury, as you see it? It is NOT possible. Here is your first clue: You claim that this "unfair" practice is happening right under your nose where you yourself work. I have a dare for you. If you have all this access to the salary data where you work you almost certainly have access to those who hire and set salaries. If this problem is so egregious and it offends your moral sensibilities so much, then go to these people who hire and negotiate salaries and point out what you have supposedly noticed and ask them about the discrepancy. Ask them the bases for their choices. You can't, can you? You won't. Even if you do second guess these people what makes your personal judgement right and theirs arbitrarily wrong? You don't know. Neither will offices full of bureaucrats, even presuming that they were, each and every one of them, individually and collectively, immune to all sorts of perverse political pressures. They're not. You're chasing a will-o-wisp. Voting to "do something about it" might make people feel good about themselves, for a short time, but it will in no way result in any better justice. In many ways, it will also, perversely, result in multiplications of injustice and waste.
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