I respect your argument about how what you said is different from the example I gave. I am not going to comment on this person or the lectures. I am skeptical about any "cool" theory that can't be traced back to a peer reviewed study. People need to realize that really knowing something is very hard. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I am sorry but I can't find a study that concludes "humans prefer pay for work over the same pay for no work". You are just trying to overwhelm me to go and read a vast library of articles.
I found a few studies where the "work" was lever-pushing and the study was with children where as they age they are less and less stupid exactly as expected (by me) http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1981.49.3.859?j...
So please try to refer me to a study that I can apply in a general office environment with people aged 30 and a real-world job so we can check the claim.
