A journeyman electrician requires 8000 hours of on the job training plus school.  A waitress takes 1 hour of training.  To think they should be paid the same is communist.  A stripper can call her profession a career if she wants, but that does not make it so.  People make choices and need to live with the outcome.  I spent 4 years and a lot of money going to college, it means I have the opportunity to make more money in my field than those who did not make the investment.