Same, as I've been paid more and given more responsibilities, the more allowances have been given to me wrt how my work gets done, and a greater emphasis is pla

Same, as I've been paid more and given more responsibilities, the more allowances have been given to me wrt how my work gets done, and a greater emphasis is placed on my comfort particularly over the long term. The way I've ended up modeling it is as power relationships. The same power relationship that lets an employer get away with paying someone minimum wage or close to it, also lets them figuratively crack the whip and literally destroy the bodies of these workers over the period they work. That power relationship is a much more predictive model IMO than value of work done if you have to pick one model (although economics is always an amalgamation of models in the real life and picking just one model to describe every situation is always a mistake). Literally the hardest worker I've ever worked with was working for under minimum wage (Georgia at that time refused to enforce the federal minimum wage) until his boss lied to .gov to get that worker's refugee status revoked (saying to us later "you should thank me for getting rid of another mexican taking your jobs"). I think that worker is now in a prison in a Central American country (I want to say El Salvador?) on trumped up political charges that he was escaping. It's hard to get a better lesson that simply hard work is not enough to succeed in America.