How are you going yo have some chances if you do not work hard? I believe many of them want to work smart beside a work hard but they do not really get what is working hard and what is working smart. By being a hard worker does not mean you can't find a good salary, I believe many of them already working hard and get what do they want and good salary too. Besides, working smart is you take very good chances and use that chances to get out from your comfort zone and starting a new business which is this is really hard for many people and that is why they just keep on working hard instead of working smart
I think I have explained it earlier in the thread. Somehow I believed it should be intuitively clear that to work smart you must be a smart guy yourself in the first place. It is not something which comes on its own in the blink of an eye, and ironically even that is smart work vs hard work. Apparently, if you are a dumbass all you have to do is to work like a dog and you may still fail to make ends meet. That doesn't mean that you won't be able to get a good salary after a few dozen years of hard work. But this is not what most of us want anyway. We want a life after all, and we don't want to waste it, right?