Compensation data and labor rules: founders keep asking who benefits

An older Ask HN questions why Pave is legal, with replies split between "sharing pay data is not wage fixing" and comparisons to the Justice Department's RealPage case. Another thread asks HN to push for restoring the US tax deduction for software development under Section 174, with a commenter noting a company could spend millions on salaries, sell 200k of software and still owe tax. A third points out that The Work Number sells salary data to employers through Equifax.

The pattern: how pay is set, shared and taxed is still contested, and all of these decisions land hardest on small teams. The Section 174 thread shows founders organizing around a rule that taxes hiring itself.

These are older threads resurfacing rather than today's news, so treat them as a persistent background worry, not a new shift.