Well, if you continue working harder than them, you'll be promoted and get a raise, and they won't. Or not, if the company has no money left for merit raises b

Well, if you continue working harder than them, you'll be promoted and get a raise, and they won't. Or not, if the company has no money left for merit raises because they're paying well above market salaries to others. But if that's the type of person you are, maybe the company would be better off without you anyway? So you expect employees to perpetually go above and beyond the job requirements without consideration of whether they'll be rewarded for it?