Instead of devastating their self-esteem, it turns them into Frankenstein Monsters focusing of (political) rent-seeking.
Get the government to "fix" it!
“..that they are getting paid what they are worth...”
I remember the first time I started working for my old man doing odd jobs around his projects.
“Okay. Well, I’d pay you what you are worth - but I don’t think you’d work that cheap. How does $5 an hour sound?”
(This was 1974 mind you at the age of 14 - it sounded like $50 today!!)