The main reason I want them to be paid more has nothing to do with deserving more. The overwhelming majority of journalists certainly don’t do work that deserves higher pay. The problem with the low pay is that they become highly prone to viewing the world as much worse than it is and sowing discontent. A financially comfortable journalistic class that feels the weight of taxes is more likely to defend hard work and keeping the fruits of their labor instead of arguing for an ever larger unaccountable and ineffective government apparatus to fix problems that they could fix themselves with their own money.