The point is presumably that it's rather unfair. That MR isn't really that many times more worthwhile than a McDonalds employee but that there are perverse incentives or a bad opportunities structure or something that, so to speak, is there to keep people down.

Brainwashed by the American Dream. You too can have all this one day! Just work hard and keep your nose to the grindstone!

Unfortunately that's increasingly no longer the case.

How does earning interest qualify as "work"?

75 hours a week isn't hard work ?

> When did people stop working so hard, but rather coveting their neighbors house?

When did people not covet their neighbors house? This sounds like canned tea party rhetoric.

The facts will certainly support a widening gap between the wealthy and poor in our (US) society. Will they also support this alleged paradigm shift in working class mentality?

Oh ya, Mitt, the epitome of a hard worker.

Do you say this for any reason outside of not agreeing with him politically?

Looking at the man's resume, combined with the fact that he has run multiple political campaigns - including one for POTUS, which is no cake-walk - tells me the guy is a pretty hard worker.

I'm not going to comment on the "fairness" of the relative wages, but implying that a McDonald's employee and Mitt Romney are equally productive, or work equally hard, is nonsense regardless of your political stance.