I make a damn good button pusher. TOTAL PUN INTENDED THERE! HAHAHAHAH
The ONLY way I could see someone making more money for their “trade” vs someone else next to them doing something far more taxing, would be from senority’s sake. If someone can sit there for 2080 hours a year doing pretty much nothing but press a big red button and make a call, for a bunch of years, they are nuts but still diserve incremental pay increases like anyone else.
But yeah, a dude getting paid $45K a year (even if he is on year 3 of button pushing) VS a dude getting paid $35K a year say writing the code to run the machine isnt “right” in my mind either.