can hard work justify no more [& probably less] than twice average pay?

Question

the world average hrs/wk have to be somewhere round 50-60, taking into account american housewives work over 90hrs/wk [according to some figures on the net] british housewives, ive seen figures of 70 hrs/wk [book 'housewife'] - the 90% of ppl on less than $1/hr must work hard just to survive

& no one can work more than 100-120 hrs/wk longterm, so no one can justify more than twice average pay by hard work, longer hours, gruelling hours, etc

[i think we can assume that a person working 100-120 hr/wk is not working harder than world average hardness/hr]

if we look at hardness of work per hr, the range of hardness of work is even smaller - i cant see that the hardest working person can work much more than 10% harder than the average/hr - & i cant see that the least hardworking person can work much less than 10% less hard/hr without getting fired

by hardness of work, i do not mean productivity, which is affected by machinehelp, muscle, brain, which are gifts, not the person

Answer 1

Pay IS governed by output, not input. Work hard at something useless -- why pay you?

Answer 2

Hardwork as in manual labor, roofer,carpenter or hard work as in pyramid slave labor. The boss allways gets the best cut. If a person is content to live and enjoy what they do, it is all good.