It seems to me that nobody has figured out how to properly incentivize workers. We all accept that workers aren’t compensated based on the value of their labor.

It seems to me that nobody has figured out how to properly incentivize workers. We all accept that workers aren’t compensated based on the value of their labor. At least where I live, it’s also pretty accepted that if you are able to do 40 hours of work in 20, you won’t be able to get the same pay for half the hours, not twice the pay for the same hours. If you come up with something clever that makes your company $X, you probably won’t see even a fraction of that. Within firms, working hard isn’t particularly incentivized. It doesnt lead to a better life. Across firms, it seems to, but the friction there is in some cases inaccessibility high (e.g. “learn to code” or “move somewhere else”).