If the tech/IT industry paid median wages would you still be sitting in front of your computer for 12-16 hours a day? If so, it sounds more like luck than anyth

If the tech/IT industry paid median wages would you still be sitting in front of your computer for 12-16 hours a day? If so, it sounds more like luck than anything that you're making decent money. I personally feel very lucky that something I would probably do anyway (coding, tech work) is paid so well. Yes, I spend an inordinate amount of time working on my skills, but I'm under no delusion that it's just those skills per se that have gotten me where I am. In many places in the world, tech jobs are not paid that much more. I simply don't see how the IT world is a meritocracy. I do see how it appears to be one, however. It's not.