Those who protest in favor of the so-called "living wage" have no perspective on the economic situation or the natural state of affairs on planet earth. In their haste to complain, they haven’t remotely appreciated just how arduous a task it would be to sustain oneself, let alone one’s family, of his own might with the resources he personally possesses outside of the advantages of the market. The common protester confuses the luxury of the market as an entitlement , ignoring the fact that the market purely facilitates mutual advantage between producers with interests in lower- and higher-order goods and services that sustain and improve their standards of living; despite appearances, the market does not exist for any ends beyond the mutual satisfaction of wants between producers offering desirable goods and services. While these goods and services may at times appear to align with those which are popularly identified as needs , the exchange of those "needs"