Thread by @patio11

Difference in productivity is a brute fact of the universe.

Openly acknowledging the degree of difference of productivity within an org boundary is so internally destructive that it is one of the reasons to have org boundaries.

As somebody who has assuredly had their own productivity vary by at least two orders of magnitude over their career, even if you just scope it to professional jobs, I tend to think that productivity differences are not static to individuals. The work, the org, the team matters.

But a lot of folks are quite committed to the position that, within a single well-functioning org on a well-functioning team with good people, everyone's productivity either compresses or can no longer said to be materially reflective of individual contribution.

And while I don't know that it is productive use of time to convince people that their aesthetic sensibilities and/or conception of justice are wrong, I would say that this point of view implies a strategy for a highly productive person who disagrees with it. That strategy works.

"That's being excessively oblique."

OK, that's true. The strategy is either get a job somewhere where productivity is measured or start your own company (where the market provides measurement services for free with your lifetime subscription to humble pie magazine).