Even if you think it's fair, people being paid based on negotiating skill is a market inefficiency so it is still undesirable.
I mean, bench pressing a lot of weight or playing the flute are also skills like any other, but we don't want software developers to be paid based on that. We want software developers to be paid based on software development skills, or other skills that actually relate to doing the job.
But those are not related to the software development, while negotiation is related to work in general.
Someone who lifts weights is also responsible to negotiate a contract with his manager.
I guess the question is then how do we decide which skills should be artificially governed based on how good they are for people?
And lets take another point of view. Sales, for example, is based on negotiating skill. Do we say that is also market inefficiency and should we somehow subsidies sales person with bad negotiating skill cos that would be better for their salary?
I don't know, I still feel like having the opportunity to negotiate is what counts (meaning no discrimination based on sex, race etc to actually be in position to negotiate) while the outcome is completely dependant on person.
And if we really stretch the argument about which skills should be based for salary, we could say that it is not a software developer fault if he is not good at his job and somehow deserves to paid as the one who is dependant, for example, on years of experience.
I think people should be thought how to negotiate rather then making some artificial rules that there should be no negotiation at all cos someone is not as good at it.
I don't understand where you got the idea that I suggest enforcing any kind of artificial rules on anyone. I am in fact for nearly zero labor regulation. I just said it's a negative effect, which it is.
Ideally the proportion in which a skill affects your salary is exactly the same at the proportion in which it affects job performance. Anything else is a market inefficiency.
Whether we should try to regulate it away is a completely different story.
I mean, bench pressing a lot of weight or playing the flute are also skills like any other, but we don't want software developers to be paid based on that. We want software developers to be paid based on software development skills, or other skills that actually relate to doing the job.