Yet these were the "essential workers" during the pandemic. Not the VCs, not the hedge fund managers, not the industrialists or bankers or rich housewives.

And all they got for their efforts were applauds.

Reality is that without their work all our societies would have failed and fallen.

Almost any common folks agrees that for example nurses aren't paid enough.

The real issue is that our "valuation" scheme is controlled by the wealthy not by the people and the only metric is what makes the rich richer.