Isn't just as much a tyrant to try and force people to work for as little money as you can get away with to maximize your own profit? That system is also why so much of the production in the world takes place in low cost countries where desperate people work for 16 hrs a day 7 days a week and still doesn't make enough money to keep from staying hungry, let alone being able to support a home.

Despite trying to provoke a little, I do not think a brain surgeon and a burger flipper should earn the same. However, I do think that a job worth doing should pay enough that two grown-ups doing it should make enough money to be able to support a small family without working more than 40 hrs per week each. Not a wealthy life, but clothes, food and a roof over their heads.