leftistcrap:

“If you worked harder, you would earn more.”

People work 60 hours a week and more in physically exhausting jobs that don’t pay enough to make ends meet.

“Well yeah, but those are jobs anyone could do! If you worked smarter, you would earn more.”

A significant proportion of low-paying jobs utilize specialized skills.

“Okay, but if you spend a considerable amount of time and effort towards education and training and condemn yourself to debt, financial insecurity and constant wage labor for an indeterminate amount of time, you may end up among the top 49% of the US population that earns more than $50k a year!”

But if everyone who worked in a low-paying job did that, we’d be left with severe labor shortages in hundreds of essential occupations. Wouldn’t it be easier and better for everyone for them to join a union instead?

“But don’t you know how corrupt those nasty unions are! Unlike business owners, who always have the interests of their employees at heart and never ever even think about exploiting them for profit! PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME PAY MORE FOR LABOR!”