This assumes two things:
First, it assumes that you will be paid for said productivity. If you are doing piecework or sales or something where your income has direct proportion to your paycheck, this is true. For most people working hourly or salary, this is not true. As you mention, you're paid by how you sell yourself. This is only nominally related to how well you do the job above what is expected.
(If you get a 2% raise for being adequate, 4% for going above and beyond, and 15% for working on your interview skills and jumping ship, your productivity system is not what matters.)
You are paid by a combination of how you sell yourself * the kind of work you do. It's not black and white. Work on grabbing the lowest hanging fruit and bottlenecks as in if you do a lot of good work, but no one cares, then work on presenting or finding a place that cares. Remove the block where good work is not valued.
If you are going to make more money, your rent is going to go up, and thus the same thing, you have to do more work now for the same benefits
Re:The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
by potatoman22 on Sunday March 26, 2023 @05:53PM
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You don't have to spend more on rent just because you get a raise
True, but unfortunately we now live in a world where corporate landlords participate in a price-fixing cartel on regional basis and use income verification data to set your rent. This means, in many cases, an increase in pay means an increase in rent even if you change nothing else about your lifestyle.
Side note: price-fixing cartels are black letter illegal as fuck in the US, but we don’t seem to enforce the laws against corporate landlords
And at certain curve the amount of money yoh make matters a lot, if you have base expenses. Making 4k vs 2k is technically infinite gains if your expenses are 2k. If you become more efficient, but don't make more money, then you clearly need to work on your ability to sell yourself. And if your expenses also grow equally to what you are making more, that is also on you.