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I'd like to think

that they are not in it for the money.

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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 19:23, archived)

If it's true that they could be earning 3 to 5 times more elsewhere

then presumably they aren't in it for the money. Yet if it's true that paying them more attracts better choices of candidates, then they are in it for the money. The only logical conclusion of all this must be that they're in it for some of the money. Like a third to a fifth of the money.

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 19:27, archived)

I don't begrudge them a decent salary,

but this argument that you have to incentivise difficult or important work just doesn't add up. I know plenty of people who have taken pay cuts to do what they wanted. Job satisfaction is priceless. The amount of power and influence MPs have over society has to count for something.

edit: although
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/senior-civil-servants-pay-ranges
you can earn 4 times as much in the Civil Service. I guess they can't help but compare themselves to some of the folks they work with day in, day out.

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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 18 Feb 2013, 19:45, archived)