Comment by mort96

People doing charity work, work for non-profits or work for public benefit corporations typically have vastly lower wages than those who work in e.g high frequency trading or other capital-adjacent industries. Are you comfortable declaring that the former is always vastly less productive than the latter?

Changing jobs typically brings a higher salary than your previous job. Are you saying that I'm significantly more productive right after changing jobs than right before?

I recently moved from being employed by a company to do software development, to running my own software development company and doing consulting work for others. I can now put in significantly fewer hours, doing the same kind of work (sometimes even on the same projects that I worked on before), and make more money. Am I now significantly more productive? I don't feel more productive, I just learned to charge more for my time.

IMO, your suggestion falls on its own ridiculousness.