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Thanks for trying to help me understand. I'm not sure if I do yet. Can I check my understanding? Did you mean, when you said > in reality their pay is fair for

• nostrebored 11mo ago
  You don’t get it because it doesn’t make sense. People’s understanding of money is horrible.
• danaris 11mo ago
  The "everyone else" is not meant to be read literally. Many people are well-paid, or even overpaid. CEOs, for instance. It's just that most people, in most common professions, are underpaid. It only makes sense to talk about a blanket statement like that being a "contradiction" when someone is attempting to speak in the language of formal logic or detailed argument, not colloquial speech.
  • tome 11mo ago
    That's fine, then the response I was looking for is simply "I didn't mean literally everyone else, I just meant simply 'most people, in most common professions, are underpaid'". That's a perfectly valid point of view. Then I would have replied that, despite perhaps being true, I don't how it's relevant to the question of whether it's fair to pay train drivers and pilots the same.