> "work for living" (I assume you do not, for some reason, consider management to be work) "work for a living" is just an idiom for blue collar work. A respons

> "work for living" (I assume you do not, for some reason, consider management to be work) "work for a living" is just an idiom for blue collar work. A response I've heard from army sergeants if someone addresses them as "sir" (which should only be used with officers) is 'don't call me "sir" - I work for a living!'. Managers and officers do indeed work. > tech companies Tech companies are one narrow segment, and you are talking only about one part of their workforce. Janitors, drivers, etc. also work for tech companies and don't make a heck of a lot (in fact, they don't even get to be employees and have no hope for advancement, at least in some places). If you think Starbucks barristas, Uber drivers, supermarket checkout clerks, retail stock-persons, hotel doorpeople, coal miners, etc. have any control over their wages or working conditions, have any negotiating power without a union, I don't know what to tell you ... maybe talk to few. The minimum wage theory is interesting, but that's not reality and so not worth my time to think through.