Higher Than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs (slimemoldtimemold.com)

Why should productivity and wages be linked? That is an old idea of Marx[1] that was refuted more than 60 years ago. If many people can do the job, the price is low. Do something not many people can do, or has enormous demand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value