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The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] JohnDClay 24 points 11 months ago

One reason tech companies are able to give absurd salaries is to suppress competition. If they can price everyone else out from good engineers, they can keep competition low.