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Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate by cwkoss on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:21PM (#27900087)
> Knowledge work does look different from physical work, but you can work hard at both; you need to work hard at either to be successful.

Classist wage disparity is a real problem in America today. Often knowledge workers who don't work hard earn more than physical workers who do work hard.

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Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate by chii on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:14AM (#27903270)
> knowledge workers who don't work hard earn more than physical workers who do work hard.

earnings are measured with productivity, and knowledge work has more scaling to their productivity output. You can dig holes really hard, but a hole dug is a hole dug. A line of code written is not just a line of code, as power of compounding output stacks on top of each other.

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