America is full of fools on this point. We don&#x27;t talk about salary because, in the back of our minds, it&#x27;s a determiniate of our value. This is not true in most philosophical systems, but it&#x27;s true in our post-modern materialism.<p>The end result of our self-censor is a weak labor market. We don&#x27;t know what we&#x27;re worth. Americans, aside from our verbrato, tend to underestimate our worth. There are people working for 80k with 8 years of experience in advanced fields like Big Data that don&#x27;t realize that they bring their companies 200k+ worth of value. They don&#x27;t realize that their peers with less skills and marketability are making the same 80k. This makes management&#x27;s life better: thicker margins.<p>When an individual attempts to move past this barrier, especially consciously, anti-union sentiment pops up. People start to get defensive. Others get lustful. A reasonable dialogue turns into a battle of the Joneses. Labor fights Labor.