they easily get around that requirement by listing absurdly large wages between the junior employee's wage and upper management's salary.

That’s not how it is done.

Freelance nurses are a good example of this already in use. It used to be most freelancers would be recruited or apply to local hospitals. Now there are about 4 apps that hospitals force nurses to use.

These apps use AI to aggregate personal information bought on the open market. They use credit information , purchase information etc. to see how desperate a nurse may be for a job and low ball them. Just had a kid, have high credit card debt, just bought a house or car. All of those would make you desperate to take a job and would allow them to lowball you.

It was impossible to cross reference all of that data by a human. Now with AI they can do it at scale and build personality profiles on wage slaves.

Before you ever applied to that job they already know what kind of wage you’ll accept… You never stood a chance.

Extra points if you look for the new job during work hours.