Spend lots of calories, possibly risk your health and be stressed to earn 10N or have none of those things and earn 7N and spend the extra time trying to better

Spend lots of calories, possibly risk your health and be stressed to earn 10N or have none of those things and earn 7N and spend the extra time trying to better yourself and escape the neo-serf existence. Seems obvious to me. For all the people saying this is a bad thing I invite you to quit your high paying tech job, give away all your savings and possessions, move to a fly-over state and get a blue collar job or two.