Sattrio on Nostr: I think our brains use it as a shorthand for "effort". This is why people get upset ...

I think our brains use it as a shorthand for "effort". This is why people get upset when CEOs get far more money than the effort they put in... they do not deserve the money, and so it feels like they are cheating.

This is reinforced by the subtle propaganda of "work hard and you can make lots of money!" or "they don't have a lot of money, so they must be lazy". Of course, this leads to people becoming jaded and angry when they work hard and don't get anything for all of their effort.