”I work so much, and they pay me so little.”
Many people heard others saying it. In fact, many people might have felt themselves. But, how do we even know what's the right pay?
There's no universal scale.
No fair calculator.
Just a system that decides to pay the least they can - not what a person work is truly worth.
It's not about effort.
Not about the hours.
And definitely not about the impact.
A farmer grows food.
A delivery worker gets it to your doorstep.
A nurse watches over someone else's life.
They're not paid poorly because they matter less - they're paid poorly because the system doesn't see them as profitable.
We've built an eceonomy that rewards visibility, branding and negotiation - not contribution, necessity or effort. It favors those who can talk well, sell themselves and climb ladders. And it quietly ignores those who hold the ground steady.
So when people feel underpaid, overworled or overlooked - it's not a personal failure.
It's not because they did not "ask for more" or "work smarter"
It's because the system wasn't designed to pay evreryone fairly. It was designed to keep its margins safe.
And in a system like that, inequality isn't an accident - it's a feature.
That's why the same job can pay wildly different amounts depending on where you're born, who you knnow, what language you speak or how lucky you were to get one chance at right time.
So when we ask, "what's the right pay?"
Maybe the better question is:
What kind of system lets this keep happening - and who does it really serve??
Because most people don't want to be rich.
They just want enough and want to be valued and respected.
And that's still too much to ask!?
P. S. Thanks to ChatGPT
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