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Comment by dml2135

6 months ago

What makes you think pay is necessarily correlated to productivity?

Taken to the extreme, literal theft can pay well, and produces absolutely nothing.

Pay indicates the transfer of wealth -- it can be a heuristic for productivity, sure, but productivity is clearly not its only source.

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