I remember the old Obama line of, "they didn't build that" and I get that he was talking about roads and infrastructure, but here's the thing, neither you nor the people he was talking to at the time built that either.
You are not a leader. You are not a visionary. You can't take an abstract idea and bring it to life by clearly articulating the what and how.
You can probably follow instructions. You can probably understand an idea that has been explained to you, but you can't come up with the idea. And even if you could, you wouldn't have the passion and energy to drive the execution.
That's why they're wealthy and we're not. We don't have the vision, the drive, the execution, the risk tolerance, the intuition, etc. They do, and that's why they make the money. We follow instructions like monkeys while they apply the critical thought on what those instructions should be. And I know you think you can do all the stuff they do, but you can't.
All of our lives have been lived thousands and thousands of times before. We are not special. We are not exceptional. We are not unique. They are.
We are fungible. We can find multitudes of people to fill out roles.
So when someone complains that they make too much money, understand that we can't do what they do. Very few can.