Y'know, I know this response is kind of facetious, but I hear this sentiment voiced fairly frequently, and as a person who has a foot in both worlds -- I've never yet made more than minimum wage (I'm shooting for a job in the low 30s now, fingers crossed!) and most of my friends are educators, social workers and other generally underpaid folk, but I also have successful lawyers and businessmen in the family making at least in the $100ks -- while there's no question even from the wealthier ones that there's ridiculous iniquity on the payscale, neither did they get to where they are now by taking holidays and buying yachts. They get there by working hard for 4500 hours or so a year. (And, yes, they are aware that there are many more people working just as long and just as hard and barely scraping by.)

Of course, there's rich and then there's rich, and maybe Mr. Tabash is one of those yachts-and-holidays lawyers, or maybe $100k required some deep digging into his bank accounts (or both!) -- I don't know anything about him, really -- but that people are making lots of money doesn't necessitate that they're at leisure.