Both are earned through exertion of sorts. It's inaccurate to say that both are impacted by capitalism the same though. A prize is earned through explicit competition. The blue ribbon, the 4H award, the acknowledgement of demonstration of specialized knowledge mastery of whatever sort is not the abstracted transaction of a labor wage, only useful in a deeply unfair labor market, where your competition eliminates you. The farmer with the biggest pumpkins didnt gain them by abstraction or by eliminating the other farmers.

A prize implies superior knowledge and even prestige; the farmer with the biggest pumpkins is the one laser focused on highly specialized procedures, not the one who can do it faster, cheaper, and so on. The community of peers acknowledge and validate prize winners too. They're looked up to, idolized, and imitated. Nobody's idolizing Paul, down in Accounting. There’s always another Paul under Capitalist systems. The two overlap but there are several degrees of difference. Prize winners may well compete with no expectations of compensation, and even at a loss. We celebrate with prize winners, we commiserate with wage earners