]Wages are not handed out based on your value. They are offered, based on what a company thinks you will settle for, and are negotiated, based on what you can convince the company you might be able to get from somewhere else.
Of course they are paid on "value." Have you ever had a job before? My career is in management and management consulting, I've hired, managed and fired my entire life and you are full of shit, you have no idea what you are talking about.
We pay to get the most value out of the job. You idiot leftists fundamentally don't understand business. Our priority is not lower cost, it's ... wait for it ... profit.
Profit = revenue - cost.
"Value" is your contribution to profit.
We don't hire based only on cost, we hire to maximize profit. The negotiating room is based on the profit question. What should I pay to maximize profit? We pay more for employees who bring in revenue, we pay more for employees who will help us serve and keep our customers, we pay more for employees who reduce defects. We don't underpay because that demotivates good employees.
The leftist view that employees are socket wrenches and one is interchangeable with another and it doesn't matter what we pay so we simply turn the screws to make it as little as possible is just your Marxist mental masturbation with no connection to reality
That you don't give a shit about your job or your employer, you do as little as possible and you have a bad attitude is why your value is low and why your pay is low