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> I don't get this weird paranoia about salary privacy. Opening it up helped everyone negotiate. To be clear Im not asking you to dox yourself. You havent proven that you aren’t paranoid though, because we have no idea who those figures belong to.
With such a low rate for an experienced frontend dev I'm not surprised he is an advocate for salary transparency. Transparency can benefit those with lower and harm those with higher than median salary.
I'm more concerned about the societal impacts overall, personally. One, I'm not exceptional by any stretch, and have always just sought a median wage. Two, I never chased a high salary, and it saddens me that the industry has become so enshittified and dependent on predatory exploitation and speculatory bubbles to fuel crazy salaries. I don't think that's anything to be proud of. Our jobs aren't very hard relative to many other fields, and we don't contribute much to society as many other professions. We were just caught up in a gold rush. I'm hoping it stabilizes and communities become livable again. The way tech was headed was incredibly toxic.