What I like to tell my RW friends regarding their "working HARDER to EARN a better wage" chestnut -

[glowing]

13. I've noticed many of those "work harder" types are

normally from an older generation that are retired... When they worked harder, they saw the results. Companies lasted longer, pensions were normal, benefits included as a norm, Dr prices and meds not extremely ridiculous as is now, and many didn't do it on a college degree. They worked there way up with training and compensation.

They have no clue. They still think working part time jobs at a burger joint during the summer can pay for one's tuition. They are so out of touch with the reality and the fact that many of them benefitted from labor unions pushing for workers rights.

And for many of them, they are greedy little pigs that don't care about others than themselves and their immediate families condition. I have literally heard idiots rail against Dems and then in the next breath say their daughter and son in law are making less money because the teacher and cop salary wage was cut, frozen, or furloughed... But we all pay "too much taxes". Delusional people with no clue who to blame.