>This implies some sort of unfairness is being hidden, which should be the easy part of the problem.
You seem to be implying that voluntarily giving out pay rises to the underpaid is easy. It isn't easy.
>The hard part is that equitable salaries do not mean equal salaries. If you there are large differences based completely on merit it's very difficult to make someone feel good about being lower than the person sitting next to them, even if it's objectively fair.
This would be the hard part if American were mostly all secret communists.
