The (icky) right-wing worldview is pretty simple here. The "market" determines whether you're "pulling your weight." If you're earning enough to do well, then the market is saying you're creating economic value in proportion to your personal income. If you're not satisfied with your current income, even if you get it by working two backbreaking jobs, then you need to a) shut up and accept the market's judgments, b) work harder or smarter, or c) transfer into a more lucrative job.
Any remedy that requires government action (raising the minimum wage, subsidies for the basic expenses of life, protections for unions) are automatically disqualified, because they interfere with the "free market."
Any understanding of "the market" that questions the wisdom of its distributions would also be invalid. For example, questioning whether Mitt Romney and Bain Capital actually helped the companies they "turned around."
It's basically free-market fundamentalism, always applied in such a way as to exempt whatever assistance the indignant speaker is receiving.