Whenever someone posts about their negative treatment in fields not known for their high pay, or rather, infamous for their low pay, you're sure to get that one comment saying to simply leave the industry for a higher paying one, as if that completely negates the argument or point of the post. This isn't a real counterargument. It's an excuse. You see, the commenter doesn't actually want the poster and all their peers to leave that occupation. After all, who would flip his burgers, teach his kids, or drive him to the hospital if necessary? What he actually wants is for people to accept that they are less valuable because of their jobs. They don't deserve a living wage until they leave their current jobs. This way of thinking works out for him. Most people who already aren't making a lot of money are unlikely to afford switching industries, so they continue trudging along for him without complaint because he's tricked them into believing that they deserve their bad treatment. But with a modicum of rationality and self-respect, you can see past the bullshit. The labor of those burger-flippers, those teachers, those ambulance drivers is valuable to him even if he wants them to think otherwise. Therefore, they should be compensated in accordance with that value. They should be paid enough to subsidize the other two thirds of their life that they don't spend working. They should never be gaslighted into thinking that what they do is worthless even as it rakes in billions for their industries