If someone isn't being paid what they want, they should work hard to achieve that pay by making goals that will lead to compensation they would be happy with, prioritizing those goals and figuring out a roadmap to achieving them. Yes some people have a huge upper-hand in life, but that doesn't mean we can't figure out a way to make our own life better. Maybe not as good as others, but better than it is, and that's something.

You can blame office politics, you can blame your lack connections, or whatever hand you were dealt. It probably wasn't a fair hand, but it's on you to make the best that you can out of it.

I don't cry about unfairness. I look at what I want, and I figure out how to get it.