[johnnyworker]

> Ultimately these discussions devolve to people just being bitter others have more than them.

No, just like complaining abou theft doesn't betray the secret wish to be the thief, but for there to be no theft. Same for wages not matching productivity, not even inflation, while inequality keeps rising. If you can't understand that, that says solely something about you.

[the_only_law]

This has been the HN playbook for a while now. In order to shut down a conversation, just accuse the other side of jealousy. Particularly before Musk fell out of the general graces of the user base, it was incredibly common to see comments like this in regard to any criticism.

[seattle_spring]

Fits well into the category of "thought terminating cliche" [1]. Sadly I've noticed a steep increase in them being employed here and other similar sites lately, often with the intent of "winning" arguments.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3....

[endisneigh]

The illusion you seem to still be under is that wages have to match productivity. This is not a natural law of the universe.

[johnnyworker]

.... okay? There is also none saying they shouldn't, you know.