Whatever the history, it&#x27;s psychologically tied up with a lot of nasty baggage, and makes it seem inherently dirty, like there&#x27;s something wrong with bidding up the value of labor by seeking to offer better compensation for workers.<p>Whatever the technical &quot;correctness&quot; of the term, it comes of as a sort of apology for setting better wages and we should use less loaded terms, like &quot;recruited&quot; or &quot;bid&#x2F;hired away&quot;.