Do you have the slightest notion of how the music industry works? Or of how many session musicians have spent their lives till they were grey and arhtritic "bent over a six-string" and have nothing to show for it but a small bank account, no job security and (in America) no health plan? Once, just once, one such - Gordon Haskell - managed THE HIT, the one great successful song that changed his life; but for one Haskell, let alone one Clapton, there are ten, fifty, a hundred who never made it. Your assumption that they did not work as hard as Clapton is both false and insulting. To quote the queen, wipe those stars from your eyes, and you'll get quite a surprise.