This rhetorical question has a common sense answer: "Generally, people are not paid what they are worth, they are paid what they can get.". Whether its useless and harmful politicians who were living on mommy's couch until they were put into political power and !SHIZAM!within a few years are independently welthy, yet have no visible means of income (Like "Dirty" Harry Reid of Nevada...".
Anyone who says 'crime doesn't pay' , has never been to the capitol.
Sir John Honeybucket
Ti vis pacem? Para bellum.
99.9% of what we call 'survival' is old school Home Economics. The remainin 0.1% is HOLDING ON TO your home economics assets in the face of violence.