Do extremely skilled professionals have unlimited bargaining power?

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Lets say you represent a company that wants to hire a professional of a field so specific there are only 100 others like them in the entire world.
Does this individual have unlimited bargaining power? What tactics can you use to hire this individual as fast as possible for the least amount of money? The existence of extremely skilled professional is an argument against marxism?
 
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I would say probably not because industry is about meeting minimum standards at the lowest price possible. If you are asking for too much they will simply accept a slightly lower standard and tell you to fuck off. There is nobody so good at whatever that someone could say no. Nothing on earth requires someone with that exactingly high talents.
 
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No, he doesn't have unlimited bargaining power. He can ask for a lot of money but at some point it will become cheaper to find a way to substitute or circumvent needing whatever service he provides, or the benefit of having it performed will outstrip the cost of getting it.

And it's not an argument against Marxism, at least not that I can see. The existence of highly skilled tradesmen has always been compatible with Marxism, since they're essentially just workers who already own their means of production and would get a big thumbs up from Karl Marx just for existing.
 
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It depends on the service supply available, and 100 for the vast majority of work is not realistic, but at the end of the day it would be counter-intuitive for the professional to push too far on anything that isn't the amount of money he will be paid for his service, as out of spite or out of desperation a company will choose someone sub-par, and if things go awry they can always double down on the originals lack of professionalism and claim his unwillingness to work brought on the negativities, damaging their reputation in the process.

Simply compare quotas with others in the field as well as previous works and see if the individual is worth it or if he's trying to fleece you.
 
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No, because if you bargained a company out of profitability, it would moot the benefit of hiring you, wouldn’t it?

Also employers would likely be concerned about the possibility of you telling someone else about what you make and forcing the issue of pay in general. Again, if the company became unprofitable, blue screen.

The furthest you could take your earning potential is probably contract work as an individual, if you had a portfolio to demonstrate how you were worth it
 
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bargaining power is capped by how much productivity/profitability the person will reasonably bring to the employer.
also if certain skillsets are both very rare and in very high demand, companies set up their own in-house training programs for them to remedy the shortage.

regarding marxism, it depends what you mean by 'argument against marxism'
marxist societies tend to stifle competition and not generate a whole lot of such exceptionally skilled professionals due to severely diminished (or completely absent) economic incentives for developing and applying excellence in any given field
 
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If one hundred niggers share your skill, you do not have a monopoly.

Any one of those niggers could start teaching your skill to other niggers and degrade its exclusivity.
 
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