Hourly Wages aren’t Perfect

I’ve been thinking recently, and have come to the conclusion that the idea of paying hourly wages is a shortcut for managerial work that doesn’t translate well to more practical jobs.

Like if you’re working on a farm or something, there’s no incentive to be as efficient as possible. It doesn’t matter as much if you get more or less (presumably there’s a productivity minimum) but if you were paid by the amount you got, you’d be trying to get as much as possible. For teamwork you could divide the amount per job equally between each member, for example.

But of course there’s more nuance than I have energy to go into it, but I was wondering what peoples’ thoughts on this are