RE: Most people and the government measure work in a way that “equal work for equal pay” is a farce. It needs to be measured by the value of what a person produces.
Reminds me of Police Officers, Firefighters and the like in New York, whose pension size depends on the LATEST pay stub they get.
So, just as they are closer to the retirement age ( which is scandalously YOUNG by the way ), they rack up as much overtime as they can to “pad” their pay checks even though they don’t do much work in their overtime.
Pensions should be calculated on the amount of money invested and the investment returns. Anything else is a Ponzi scheme. Only gov’t employees don’t consider that their pensions are schemes because “the gov’t won’t go out of business and the taxpayers can be made to pay for any liabilities”. I spent years on the board of a public employee union pension.