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I'm not sure about people not being paid what they're worth, but I'll definitely agree that what they're paid bears little relationship to the amount of work they do. (Or, more precisely, to the amount of effort they put in. For me, programming comes easy so I produce a lot of work for little effort-until I'm given the task of documenting a program purchased without documentation. Writing, for me, take a great deal of effort-so this year I've been 'working' more but actually producing less 'work'. But as I keep reminding myself, it all pays the same. Note that I'm on salary, not piece-work as many, possibly most, authors are. But your statement seemed to be more broadly applied than to just authors, so I answered in the same sense.)
FWIW, the US Declaration of Independence claims people have a right to *pursue* happiness-it says nothing about a right to *achieve* it.
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