I'm from a certain part of the world and I seem to lack the necessary psychology to justify why my pay is a couple times that of people who I work alongside (virtually) who are equally as competent as me.
Who do you need to justify it to? I'm sure your work would accept you offering to get paid multiple times less if you were prefer that. Or otherwise, do what you can to advocate for giving raises to the equally competent people on your team who are making less.
I suspect it's a basic primate tribal dynamic built into my firmware - us monkeys need to stick together and pull our weight so the tribe can survive. Of course it bumps up against some other greedy functions that are also built in.
