Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
I see no real reason why corporations should pay systematically better salaries/wages because they're somehow better organisations. In fact, up to 100% of the salary difference may be compensation for the job being ####tier and the ability to pay a high salary might be transferred to all SMEs in the same market if you get rid of the corporation(s).
The reasons may be open to debate, but if you look at the salaries paid by major corporations in the US, even at the fairly mundane level (secrataries, office managers, etc), they tend to be at the high end of the wage spectrum for the job in question. Whether or not those jobs are in fact $#!ttier than equivalent jobs elsewhere is something I suspect neither of us knows. In any event the Government doesn't choose whether a given economic sector will be dominated by large corporations or SME's, neither is there anything preventing the two from coexisting. It's by no means an either/or situation.