Dan Cole sympathises with the plight of Samoa's players but insists it would be unethical for England stars to give them a portion of their match fee ahead of Saturday's autumn international.
Anthony Watson revealed recently that the possibility of donating part of the £23,000 earned for each Test -- as recently suggested by Mako Vunipola -- would be discussed this week ahead of Saturday's climax to the autumn series at Twickenham.
Samoa's union, which pays its players a match fee of £600, has been declared bankrupt by its chairman but this claim is refuted by World Rugby.
Captain Dylan Hartley discussed the issue with England's senior playing group that includes Cole and it was concluded that they would not supplement the £75,000 goodwill gesture promised to the Pacific Islanders by the Rugby Football Union.
"The decision was made along the ethics of paying an opposition to play against you and the future issues that might create," Leicester prop Cole said. "It was not so much about opposition asking for pay, but the potential for the scenario of 'we've paid you before, now you owe us a favour'.
"I would love for other nations to get paid what we get paid, but it's above our station as players. We play the game against every opposition, whoever they are, and it's not for us to get involved in the politics of paying people."
England have won all seven previous meetings with Samoa by a minimum of 13 points and even allowing for a back row injury crisis, they are expected to prevail comfortably on Saturday.
Cole, however, expects Samoa to use the contrast in financial resources to fuel their assault on the world's second ranked team.
"In the Premiership we have a lot of Tongans and a few Samoan boys. They might say, 'yes, you're well paid,' and fortunately we are, but it's not said in a bitter way," Cole said. "There's no resentment towards me being an England player, it's more at union level.
"When you hear about some of the struggles other nations have, and then we have these facilities, I can see why everyone else would want that. Samoa might use that as a motivating factor in the game. Having played them before, I know they are passionate.
"They want to play in front of a full house at Twickenham and beat England to show what they can do. If they managed that, it would probably be the Samoan performance of the year or even decade."
Cole insists it is important that teams such as Samoa are able to compete on the global stage.
"You don't want just two or three superpowers playing -- that will eventually harm the game. You want as many different international teams playing," he said. "Leicester City winning the Premier League was the best thing to happen to the competition because it broke the top four."
England are expected to name Sam Simmonds at number eight on Thursday morning after Nathan Hughes was ruled out against Samoa because of a knee injury.