Yeah, well, let's take a gander of what they live in and drive and how the retired live. It's kind of like teachers. They are always underpaid yet the vast majority have a nice house, with nice vehicles and have a good retirement life, sometimes really early.
I know a lot of teachers who don't have those things unless they married someone with some sort of 6 figure job or something.
Not saying they're all underpaid...many people in general simply don't know how to live within their means, but typically many live paycheck to paycheck.