I don't think a rockstar or a basketball player "deserves" to get more than a doctor or a teacher, but that is what the market is willing to pay. Till now, these workers got what the market was willing to bear. You may feel smug that some bluecollar worker finally learned his rightful place. Perhaps, the uniqueness of working for the MoD entitles you to that smugness. But can that be said for the rest of us? What I do requires years of study and experience, but I know that there are people in places like India and Brazil that could do my job for 1/10th or less. They may not be as good as I am but it is only a matter of time. I know there are software that do what people believed only humans could do. They may not do everything I do, but one day there won't be a reason to have many people like me. So one day when one of us the so called creative white collar worker is called into the manager's office and told either we accept half of what we were paid (if we are lucky) or our job gets outsourced or replaced by a program, would we react any differently? Do any of us really "deserve" what we are paid? All I know is that that everytime someone loses their job due to globalization or technological innovation, the same process could one day to making me obsolete