"If you made 110 points on my test then you can afford to give some to the person who made 72"

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64. That's not how money works.

That analogy would only make sense if everyone made the same wage.

The second that one person makes a higher wage, it means that someone else had to make less - that money doesn't come from nowhere.

At my most recent job, I was making $8.50/hour. The people who had been there for years made more. We all did the same work.

Lets say the "test" determines if society can function; if there can be roads, schools which employ math teachers, etc. For that society to function, lets say the class needs an average score of 80 points, and there are 20 students in the class. One student gets 100 points for every correct answer. 4 Students get 5 points for every correct answer, and 15 students get 1 point for every correct answer. There are 100 questions on the test. Is it ok for the student who gets 100 points for every correct answer to not as hard on the test because their correct answers will disproportionately skew the average, or should they still work to bring up that average, because the outcome will effect them as well, even though their contribution is disproportionate.