When I was a kid we were relatively poor because my parents both worked in "vocations", ie. things that helped other people and therefore paid badly. My mum cared for disabled people and my dad was a fireman. It gave me a kind of bitter view of how the world worked.

Now I sit on my arse at a computer and can earn both from my career and side gigs, the combination of which is a tiny percentage of the hard work they put in.

The UK pays our nurses so badly they are having to strike to be able to afford to live without requiring food banks, and the government and newspapers are trying to turn the country against them as somehow greedy. During a pandemic.

Goes to show that hard, altruistic work for the betterment of humanity is not just badly paying, it is actively punished by society.