If we were all working on farms, or whatever it is their ideal is, we would be making our own coffee, working with our kids out in the fields, and would be too tired to be having sex at all. There's a whole class of shit jobs that wouldn't even exist.
I don't think anyone should be grateful for a barista job or whatever, but it's probably better than weeding a cornfield for six cents an hour. If everyone was poorer, everyone would be poorer. Income inequality has always existed and will always exist: money comes from value, and people have to create that value somehow. If you create less value, you'll have less money. (I agree that it's difficult to bootstrap yourself from shit job to riding around in a Wifi-enabled bus, and that's something we should try and fix. But the money to fix it has to come from somewhere.)
I don't think anyone should be grateful for a barista job or whatever, but it's probably better than weeding a cornfield for six cents an hour. If everyone was poorer, everyone would be poorer. Income inequality has always existed and will always exist: money comes from value, and people have to create that value somehow. If you create less value, you'll have less money. (I agree that it's difficult to bootstrap yourself from shit job to riding around in a Wifi-enabled bus, and that's something we should try and fix. But the money to fix it has to come from somewhere.)