“If they deserve to get paid more than so do I!” is another of saying “I'm also being underpaid and deserve to be paid more.”
A friend of mine works as a hairdresser and was ranting about how “unskilled workers” don't deserve a higher minimum wage. Something about how she is making $XX doing a “skilled job” and fast-food workers doing “unskilled jobs” should not be getting paid more than her. I said the solution there is not to pay minimum wage workers less, but that you should BOTH be getting paid more. And I tried shifting focus away from minimum wage workers as individuals and towards the employers instead. What would you have said?