Kinda like Yeb hitting everyone up for $$$$$$
The phrasing does not work. People do not make more money necessarily by working harder. People picking tomatoes in a field work plenty hard, many minimum or close to minimum wage jobs require you to work hard, and are exhausting. The trick is to provide something of value that a business is willing to pay you a lot to do, or provide good or service that many individuals or businesses are willing to pay a lot for. If your skill set is something that can be replaced instantly with little training cost by any monkey off the street, then though you may work your a$$ off, you will never command a good salary. Though even in that lowest of positions, though not always perfect, if you show working your a$$ off, with an obvious desire to learn more, and self initiative to progress further, most well run businesses will recognize that, and will do everything to facilitate moving up to the next level. Everybody starts at the bottom, and it is possible to return to the bottom from high up because of circumstances, but unless one has severe mental deficienies, it is completely voluntary to remain at the bottom for an extended period of time