The Delusion Of Hard Work (It Won’t Make You Rich)

You can work hard at anything but that doesn’t mean it’s useful to the progress of humanity.

This is the delusion of hard work.

You can put 4 years of work into getting a degree.

You can put 10 years of work into climbing a corporate ladder.

And still, you won’t be paid anywhere close to what you want.

So, rather than taking your future into their own hands, you whine and complain.

“I deserve to be paid more!”

“I’ve spent 14 years working hard and this is all I get for it?”

“I barely have any time for my family. I don’t have enough to take a vacation. I slave away with no light at the end of the tunnel.”

The complainers of the world are missing one crucial piece of the puzzle:

The labor theory of value is that you should be paid for the amount of work you do.

To feel as if you have jumped through hoops.

To feel like you deserve something.

But that’s not how reality works.

Money is a unit of value. Value is a measure of how much people care about what you do.