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Apparently sold for $4.5M last, per Redfin. Less than I’d have thought.

They won’t lowball you below range, though. So it is a “competitive” salary in that sense. It almost always behooves you to ask for more than you reasonably think they would give you.

Also, usually recruiters are judged almost exclusively on “time to fill”, meaning they aren’t judged by how cheaply they get people in the door, just how fast they do it.

I have some insight into this.

It actually means that:

1. companies identify peer groups of companies that they compete with for hiring,

2. they get aggregated data on everyone’s pay from data brokers (they submit anonymized compensation info, brokers aggregate it and distribute the aggregate data to their customers)

3. they pick a market percentile of the compensation range of their peers that they target for various jobs

4. they build pay ranges around that target percentile

Effectively, if most companies target pay “at market” i.e. market median, it normalizes industry pay to the median. This does depress wages, but also provides upward pressure at the low end. Sort of like a price fixing scheme.

Some companies target higher than that, and those effectively provide upward labor market pressure.

So, “competitive” means “sort of near to or higher than the statistical median for this job among companies we consider peers”. Unless they’re just lying or misinformed - but they’d have a hard time retaining employees.

Oh there’s definitely a taste difference - mainly because of diet. Farm-raised salmon eat feed made of various grain-starches, oils, and fish meal supplemented by vitamins and minerals while salmon in the wild eat a much different diet. But nutritionally there isn’t a substantial difference.

As an aside, the salmon fisheries in North America are some of the best-managed and most sustainable in the world. So if you can afford it, then wild caught salmon is a great choice.

I think you’d turn orange-ish - more like salmon than flamingo colored. Astaxanthin is a carotenoid like beta-carotene, so you could develop carotenemia/carotenosis which would make you look orange.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content?contenttypeid=19&contentid=betacarotene#%3A~%3Atext=Toxicity%2Cskin+to+become+yellowish+orange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenosis

It’s big carnivorous ocean-dwelling fish for me - like tuna, swordfish, etc - both because many of their fisheries are in very poor health/are destructive to the environment and because of the heavy metals issue.

As stated, it is because they don’t eat little crustaceans and krill in the Salmon farms. These critters have Astaxanthin in them (same stuff that makes flamingoes pink).

Astaxanthin is just the pigment that is naturally produced by these animals. It can be synthetically produced using yeast or algae - the synthetic stuff is chemically identical to the naturally-occurring stuff.

I feel like the implication when you see “farmed salmon is grey” is typically “and therefore it is bad/toxic/unhealthy/unnatural, etc”. Really, the color just means they just have less naturally occurring astaxanthin in their diet. Astaxanthin is an antioxidant and is good for you - and plays a role in the growth and development of the salmon. However, when it is produced synthetically and added into the fishes’ feed to give them color & aid their development, it has the same effect as if it were from krill.

There are problems with salmon farming (environmental and animal welfare issues, though there can also be disease and contaminant issues dependent on farm location/conditions), but the actual meat is not nutritionally very different from wild salmon. It can actually have similar or even higher omega-3 content because farmed salmon are fatter (though their fat is higher in omega-6 and lower in omega-3 than wild-caught salmon).

My theory is that technology provides cognitive shortcuts/a way to offload cognitive labor.

If you learn the basics without technology, you have to have fundamental understanding and skills.

If you start with technological assistance right away, you may never build that fundamental level of understanding and skill.

The more the tech does for you, the worse it is. You may never learn critical thinking, problem solving, memory, or concentration skills if the answers are just handed to you.