Today we have access to insane resources that our early humans couldn’t have even dreamt about, even for the relatively poor people today.
The machine provides a massive supply chain of a variety of food and medicine that was unheard of for ~all of human history. Flipping burgers for an hour makes you ~$10, with which you can buy food for two people for a whole day (or more). That’s less work for more reward than ever before in history.
So the reward system does work — you’re still competing, and the rewards are massive, relative to apes and early humans.
There’s no such thing as job security without a form of a contract.
Also, you should look up the minimum wage in the 60’s and 70’s and adjust it for inflation. They were getting paid $40USD+ per hour in today’s dollars. So, no $10 is not a lot.
// Being the best burger flipper gives you job security.
Burger flippers earn close to the minimum wage. They always have decent job security, it's easy to find a similar job(not necessarily as a burger flipper).
This is absolutely, myopic, demonstrably wrong at so many levels, from the fact that minimum wage has been stagnant for decades to eising cost of living
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/24/this-char...
Usually why people care about that is in-job competition and status hierarchies and ego.
But the role of those psychological/biological mechanisms(for ex. the serotonin system), in apes, for example, is to drive you to compete on mates and food. To get access to real, valuable resources.
Modern organizations are using those mechanisms to motivate you, without giving you any access to real resources. Another form of exploitation.
Some chose not to play that game.