Exactly.
If you have ever read any of the works of Thomas Sowell, he does a great job of addressing this.
Leftists like to use job levels as a static location for workers and make all of their assumptions from those simplistic (yet completely intentional, I am convinced) models.
In reality, people move in and out of job levels over their lives, and those of us who entered at minimum wage jobs had no intention of staying there our whole lives on stupid “living wage”. We enter and transit through.
As a burger flipper myself while I was going through college, I have no animus toward that industry at all. And for those who desire the management level, they can make a decent living income. But I never saw it as a career. It was my funding source while I studied for my career.
But I would proudly do it again. All sincere work is to be honored.