Re: @wolfetone
"You get paid based on the value you produce."
If that was true, wages would have gone up faster than inflation for the last 50 years, as productivity increased faster than inflation. That did not happen.
No, you get payed whatever your employer can get away with. If that means hiring someone on a temporary visa who can barelly speak the language, so be it, need that quarterly profit margin to make the CEO's bonus.