Selfish bleeding hearts are such an annoyance. They never give you good jobs. They always take away the jobs you can get.
This makes sense, though. If you work for cheap for someone who is willing to pay you, both of you are happy. The person who is unhappy is a third party who you are harming by preventing him from charging more.
So that guy will invent justifications: no job should pay this little, they don't know better, etc etc
But from the fact that these people never get you a better job and always take away a good job, you can tell what they want: to stop you from outcompeting them.
Place it in obvious terms like that and it's clear who is trying to harm you and who is a feasible partner.
This makes sense, though. If you work for cheap for someone who is willing to pay you, both of you are happy. The person who is unhappy is a third party who you are harming by preventing him from charging more.
So that guy will invent justifications: no job should pay this little, they don't know better, etc etc
But from the fact that these people never get you a better job and always take away a good job, you can tell what they want: to stop you from outcompeting them.
Place it in obvious terms like that and it's clear who is trying to harm you and who is a feasible partner.