pretty good article. I've seen some strange things with money and disparity. The one thing that I've always found, though, (common to urban myth) is that effort is reciprocated with more money - I find people have always looked out for me from the higher layers even when everyone around me who worked half as hard complained about no raises. At that time I was a little underpaid relative to my peers. So good resources will get the money balanced out over time if they are really truly good imho. Good will aside - that's a separate issue of course.