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"knowledge workers" generally enjoy the highest compensation of any working class in history.

Athletes and (famous) actors beat them, but they barely constitute a class.

And how does society view those people? Deserving of their compensation, and the general overall view is that they earned that money?

Well, it depends on if you want to measure based on loud critics or the compensation they are receiving.

That is, getting paid a certain salary is some sort of statement that you deserve it.