> People who don't want to work harder complain that other people make more money because they either don't understand or are in denial about the amount of work the people they envy put in.
I assure you, I have never in my life worked 20 times harder than someone making minimum wage.
No executive has ever worked as hard as the girl pushing carts at your local supermarket or the "Illegal" hand picking the fruit you eat for 12 hours a day for less than minimum wage or the teen mechanic dealing with a "2 hour" warranty job on a vehicle rusted to shit.
There is no such thing as knowledge work that takes that much out of you. Sure, thinking hard and making choices all day will exhaust you, but you won't stop moving at age 55 because your body was literally used up for pennies to make someone else wealthy.
If you fly business class, you are the elite making your wealth by skimming from people doing the real Labor. Your wealth is enabled by a paper and some writing. You contribute nothing.
I assure you, I have never in my life worked 20 times harder than someone making minimum wage.