Until today, I tried to think about my productivity as an advantage.
I’m seeing it all as an identity thing. You get paid for taking a role which aligns your personal identity with the identity of the collective, regardless of real productivity. I’m sprinkling some Bourdieu into Baumol in seen power structures reproducing themselves by adjusting prices.
The worrying thing to me is when you think you are gonna get promoted for producing more instead of for having a matching personality trait for your next role.