Zyp wrote:

Quite frankly what you folks *should* complain about are the high
costs associated with oil production executives. Why or how would
anyone in a years' time be worth millions of dollars is beyond me.
[Figure there's 2,000 working hours at best in a year, for a CEO to
earn millions a year.] But it's easier to bitch about a hard
working plumber who not only has a shop to support but a family as
well.

Your observation generates several questions:

First, why should what someone else makes be of any concern to you?

Second, you admit that the rationale for an oil executive's salary is
"beyond you" which may explain why an oil executive's salary is (probably)
substantially higher than yours - he knows why.

Third, whether the hard-working plumber has a family is irrelevant. People
get paid for the value of the services rendered, or at least they should.
**** like minimum wage and union scale keep getting the way.