[danaris]

Unfortunately, the belief of many is that if you are paid more, you are a more valuable person, and thus get to look down on those who make less than you.

This very frequently manifests in believing that it is the Lower People who have to do actual work, while your job as a Higher Person is just to make sure they are doing their work (in the simplest way possible—butt in seat == working), and not doing things above their station. Like thinking, or trying to understand why it is that their job, which can be done entirely on any computer with an internet connection, must be done in the office, or questioning why, when the business loses money, the execs still get fat bonuses.

[lupire]

It's simpler then that. Who fights for outsizedly high paying jobs relative to peers of the same talent? Greedy, selfish people who have no respect for others. They act as expected in the job.