&gt;This smacks of entitlement.<p>Employees should feel entitled. They generate 99% of our GDP while 50% of that GDP goes to the top 1% of the population. The capitalist employer &#x2F; employee relationship is designed to screw over the employee. The word &quot;entitlement&quot; is a classic guilt tripping technique used by either employee or employer. Ignore it, because as an employee you will never get a high enough salary that can tip the scales. With 50% of the worlds wealth in the hands of the 1% (aka the employers), the metrics say one thing and one thing only: you are always entitled to more.<p>&gt;The employee won&#x27;t necessarily leave, there are many reasons why they wouldn&#x27;t. There&#x27;s a whole world of jobs out there that aren&#x27;t tech, these fields don&#x27;t have the luxury of an expanding industry propping up salaries, providing a social ladder.<p>If the employee isn&#x27;t leaving and their isn&#x27;t any growth, than the employee stays out of desperation or fear. The employee is essentially too afraid to take the risk to create growth. This is not the definition of employee satisfaction. Many employees are in this situation and many employees aren&#x27;t satisfied because of it. It is very rare for a man to feel 100% satisfied without any continuous growth. Additionally, I am not talking about whether this situation is wrong or right, I am talking about what an employer needs to do to satisfy an employee. Whether the employer wants to do that is a different issue.<p>&gt;It would be wonderful to have the benefits of industry growth along with the security of one job for life, but we don&#x27;t live in that world.<p>Sure. I never said anything to the contrary. We don&#x27;t live in an ideal world. But the context for my comment is &quot;How to satisfy an employee&quot; and I answer the question with what is required.<p>The conversation is sidetracking from my initial comment about the true nature of employment satisfaction into a technical argument on why such an idealist endeavor isn&#x27;t executed. So what? Do you agree with me on what makes an employee satisfied or do you have evidence&#x2F;logic to falsify my reasoning?