How do we calculate the intrinsic value of our daily work done? Are we really underpaid?

"..economists assert that the weak growth in wages is an indicator of a new economic order in which working people
are at the mercy of their employers. Unions have lost clout.

Companies are relying on temporary and part-time workers while deploying robots and other forms of automation
in ways that allow them to produce more without paying extra to human beings. Globalization has intensified competitive pressures,
connecting factories in Asia and Latin America to customers in Europe and North America."

“Generally, people have very little leverage to get a good deal from their bosses, individually and collectively,” says Lawrence Mishel,
president of the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-oriented research organization in Washington. “People who have a decent job
are happy just to hold on to what they have.”