You have a false premise, Charles. Unfortunately, not every job is capable of providing a "living wage" for an entire family with only a single wage earner. Certainly not since the atypical, and by definition destined to be temporary, economic conditions of the post-WWII have ended. That doesn't make those jobs less worthy of respect, and folks who work deserve credit for doing so, but that something is worthy of respect doesn't mean it is economically possible for it to pay a wage disproportionate to the value it generates.