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December 28th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Gel,
I have heard your argument so many times that those who worked hard, got a great education, etc . succeeded and therefore deserve to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But you are looking at the world only through a money lens. Not everyone sets money as their goal. Many work their entire lives for more altruistic causes that benefit society enormously: teachers, social workers, those who work in all sorts of non-profit organizations, etc. They are the ones who educate our children, care for us when we are sick or disabled, and work to make our world better. But their pay is typically very low.
Then you have those work in in the arts but typically earn very little: writers, artists, musicians, actors, even the legions of people who work for years in Hollywood, many of whom barely scrape by (I’ve been in LA for the past 10 months and I have witnessed this first-hand), but the result of their work is the TV and movies we all watch. All of these folks enrich our lives in myriad ways and, without them, our culture would be an empty shell.
And then there are the legions of parents, mostly women, who choose to raise their children and not work because they believe that our country and the world need children raised with love and attention – that children need parents who are present and not absent, even through adolescence (perhaps most importantly then).
And finally, there are those who have other abilities that do not lead to high earning professions but still contribute greatly to society through their work, perhaps far more than the professions that our society has decided through various mechanisms to reward with high earnings.
If you follow your kind of argument to its natural conclusion, all of these people do not deserve decent health care and a decent standard of living because they chose to not make a lot of money but rather chose other areas of work that benefited society, at least in some cases far more than those professions that make a ton of money (think mortgage bankers and Wall Street during this past decade). The ability to make large sums of money should not be the sole determinant for a decent standard of living. I am not advocating total financial equality, or a form of socialism — I recognize the benefits that capitalism offers( with some constraints) — but rather a balance in society that, as Phil pointed out above, is no longer the case in our country.