Salaries are not considered to be participation trophies.
My idiot teens were the same way: “I’m not going to work for a lousy $5 an hour!”
I’d make them put out there EMPTY palms and ask them if they see any MONEY in either. Get your butt to work, ya bum!
I can just imagine the kinds of salaries today’s crop of dorks are demanding. I’ll bet they still have empty palms too, LOL!
P.S. All grew up to be functioning members of society and NONE of them returned to live in my basement. As if I’d let them in the first place. ;)