I get that you don't like sarcasm (disagree, but to each his own), but how is the comment that I replied to more "respectful"? They dismissed out of hand the entire intellectual exercise of the original post because it doesn't jibe with their ideal of perfectly informed employees making optimal contracts with their employers.

I found their tone quite sneering and flippant, and so I parodied it (pretty mildly, I might add, the implications are right there in the comment I replied to).