It's crazy to me that they feel taken advantage of, but decide the best option is to try and push down those who are even or below their pay grade, instead of focusing their sights higher at those at the top.

>While any one crab could easily escape, its efforts will be undermined by others, ensuring the group's collective demise.

Unfortunately, that's not exactly how things end up working in practice when it comes to pay because of a pesky little thing called inflation.

Inflation is amazing for debtors as it eats away at their debt over time, which is what happened for baby-boomers who were given the opportunity purchase property on credit during the long post-war US economic boom.