All of us have jobs or have had jobs sometime in our lifetime. I want you to imagine now that you have been working hard for Company G for about 20 or 30 years. You started with a reasonable pay, but now as you’ve done well, you have gained a great salary. You are proud of your accomplishment. With your salary, you’ve been able to buy a nice home, raise a stable family, and accrue funds for your retirement. This is the “way it’s done,” and you mastered it.

One day, the company decides, it needs to hire a new round of employees to fill the gaps of those retiring. They hire young men and women, fresh out of college, with bright hopes but little experience and no amassed loyalty to the company. To your surprise (and dismay), the company decides to pay them your current salary.

Would you cel…