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Why not, and what would be your 'just' criteria instead?
A totally different kind of 'just' approach would be to find out what your workers need for living, and pay them that.
Thank you for offering this one. It falls into the "things I don't and shouldn't control."
If workers learn they can be paid more by having higher expenses, they will have higher expenses. I also should not be combing through their expenses and judging them to avoid manipulation.
I didn't mean money that they spend for fun. Not at all.
I meant real needs. This means a different (very unusual) point of view regarding salary.
For example, businesses are already required to spend extra money if there is a worker with special needs = disabilities. The company must provide a special chair in the office, extra tools, whatever. Such a person might also have more extra needs with his normal expenses for living.
Good point. Thank you.
Don't forget the cost of lower and higher education in your "need for living" calculation!
Also, you'll still need a system to determine what products and services are valuable for society.
Copying the poor answers of the past does not advance society. I want to image a great company, not more of the same.