资本家们和资本家的朋友们说：没有高薪就无法吸引能人；而给员工工资过高则无法生存！

Capitalists and their friends--media, politicians, economists and self motivated IT professionals--tell people, without high salaries, we can get smart people (to lead the companies). When turning down employees' demand for the raise of salaries, they then tell you, backed up by the scholarly publications by the renowned economists, statisticians and mathematicians, that high wages would make the companies uncompetitive and eventually bankrupt.

是这样吧。