>>>>On the other hand, $200K combined income is about 4-5X as much as the national average.
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>>>>If most people get by on a small fraction of that, it is no major stretch of the imagination to consider that a lot of money.
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>>>>And this means that other people who don't work as hard a I do are entitled to a piece of what I have earned because?????????
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>>>I'm not sure of the logic that says that anyone who earns less than you (or I) doesn't work as hard. There are jobs where people work very hard for much lower salaries. There are people out there who work more than one job to make ends meet and still earn less than you or I.
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>>Few exceptions do not abolish the rule: one should work harder to earn more. Would you agree that this rule exists?
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>Surely that rule could only ever apply if two people were doing the same or similar jobs. You could then expect the hardest worker of the two to earn the most.
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>No matter how hard a waitress worked, she wouldn't earn as much as you or I.

Waitress does not have to go to college, study hard, put long hours in the beginning of her career to get better position later. I truly wonder why it is so difficult to figure out so simple rationale.