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Re: Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

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Post by zelphirkalt »

felurx wrote: post #50
zelphirkalt wrote: post #46

Well, I wouldn't mind getting my wage fixed, if that works both ways, down _and up_, because then I would be guaranteed to never earn less than average for my skill and experience. Assuming, that those things of course factor into the averaging. Person X with experience Y in position Z. However, something tells me, that there is a tendency towards the downwards direction and none towards wage increase. (Background: I…

Genuine question: What makes you believe that an employer would decide to pay you more when they notice that they're paying you less than other companies would? Why wouldn't they just think "Oh, neat, we got such a bargain!"

That's the reason I wrote, that I wouldn't mind, if (and only if) the upwards direction also happens and why I wrote, that "something tells me" that that wouldn't be the case ; )

Re: Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

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Post by levi-turner »

msy wrote: post #8

Companies like Radford have been doing this for decades and are used by pretty much everyone, Pave is just a more efficient version of the same game.

Beyond salary, there is a whole industry of data brokers who get transactional data from individual participants in an industry vertical (CPG, Health Insurance, Salary, etc), aggregate it with their competitors and present it back to those participants as benchmarks. Management Consulting likewise is a way to launder getting strategic insight into your competitors from a third-party.

Re: Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

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Post by dang »

benterix wrote: post #55
hoseja wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aaaaand it's gone.

This makes me sad. @dang, can you comment on that? I appreciate your integrity.

We didn't see it or demote it—it set off the flamewar detector. I've turned that off now, in keeping with the principle described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41511529.

p.s. @dang is a no-op - I only saw this thread because I was doing our standard review of the flamewar detector. If you want guaranteed* message delivery, hn@ycombinator.com is the only way.

* Well, mostly guaranteed. I assume there are a few that fail to get noticed in the spam bin, though we check that pretty carefully.

Re: Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

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Post by dang »

tazu wrote: post #31

> Pave is a YC-backed startup This thread is getting removed from the front-page in 3... 2...

I understand why people assume we do that, but actually we do the opposite—that is, we moderate less when YC or a YC startup is part of a story. There is plenty of past explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Note: we still moderate such threads. We just do it less than we otherwise would.

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