You are humanity.
You have erected injustice, and it stalks the earth, devouring who it will, devouring 1 in 50 people every year.
Pay justice: equal pay for equal *work*.
You pay for natural gifts, business risk, landownership, skill, experience, having studied, scarcity, luck, 'responsibility', having money, none of which things is work. [But you don't pay for studying and for housewifery, which are work, which create wealth.] At 10%, a billion pulls $100 million worth of goods a year from the pool of workproducts for no work at all. Legal theft.
Individual contribution to wealth by work is necessarily limited, but you allow unlimited fortunes. You allow overpay, legal theft.
You pay for these things out of your own pockets, out of your work. 50% of people in the first world have negative net assets.
There is enough to pay every worker *in the world*, including housewives and students, US$40 an hour. Plenty, and peace. No starvation, no war, no crime, no corruption, no brutality, no illiteracy, no fanaticism, no anger, no arrogance, no terrorism, no state terrorism, no nuclear winter coming. No inquisitions, no death camps, no people-burning, no torture, no genocide. No warmongering and cannonfoddering. 100 times faster progress, with 90% of the scientists we have not tied up in inequality, in military-industrial complex, business, government, universities, legal system, hospitals, and 90% of the scientists we could have not too poor to become scientists.
Instead, you have pay up to 100,000 times average, and down to 10,000th of average, you have 1% getting 98% of world income, you have 99% underpaid, 90% paid between 100th and 10,000th of average pay per hour. If equality, pay justice, was a swimming pool one metre deep, your pool is 98% up in a thin needle going up 100 kilometres, and 90% of the pool is between 1cm and 0.1mm deep.
Wealth is power, the second greatest power, so you have giants up to 100,000 times more powerful than the average, 1,000,000,000 times more powerful than the weakest. People with a billion can hire a million soldiers for 1000 days at $1 a day, and they are. With equality, one person would be hardput to maintain one soldier. The third world, at 51% of world wealth now, is rising 10% every 30 years.
You grow these giants and then try to lasso them. They murder a million children. You don't run, with police and mayors among you, to drag them from their beds and tear them limb from limb. [You would if the children were children of your own country.] Occasionally, you tear them down in brutefests [revolutions] and let new ones grow. They are now, thanks to chainsaws, tractors and underpaid people, destroying 1% of world topsoil a year, 100% a century.
Fine. Whatever you choose. There's no arguing taste.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
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