Re:Young children would rather explore than get rewards
by yellowapple on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:28AM
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> But your salary doesn’t change if you work hard or slack. It’s not a reward for performance.
Maybe not in an immediate sense, but working hard ostensibly makes it more likely to get promoted to a position with a higher salary, while slacking ostensibly makes it more likely to get demoted or fired.
Of course, I say "ostensibly" because the real world doesn't really work like that, with hard workers getting shafted and lazy pricks schmoozing and politicking their way into the very positions those hard workers should've gotten. It'd be disheartening, but it happens to be a decent treatment for my impostor syndrome: everyone else is an impostor, too, so might as well just play along.
But your salary doesn’t change if you work hard or slack. It’s not a reward for performance.
Similar to how you’d die without breathing but you don’t feel rewarded for every breath. You wouldn’t breathe more than someone else to get more alive.