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Your letters: The plight of the plebs
The world, as we know, is full of wonderful kind-hearted people who live their lives peacefully and go about their business in a more than acceptable way
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he world, as we know, is full of wonderful kind-hearted people who live their lives peacefully and go about their business in a more than acceptable way.
And then we have those in power, many in business and a whole host of scroungers that mess it all up. The top 5 percent of the world's population has 85 percent of whatever is of value, and the other 95 percent own a clapped-out Ford Cortina and live on pilchards.
Now if I was running World Population Inc. I would think there is something seriously wrong with that and would tweak a few buttons to level things out a bit.
But no, I'm just a pleb with no say just like the other 95 percent of plebites. You tell me why a man that just kicks a football earns £200,000 (US$307,474) per week when a man working six days a week, 10 hours a day planting and harvesting food for the market earns less than £10 per week.
There are of course thousands of situations like that where especially entertainers gross billion of dollars for acting in films or lobbing a ball into a hanging net.
It isn't the fact that I begrudge them a good wage for their efforts, it is simply the fact that their earnings are grossly disproportionate to their output. Most of the good things in life are far too expensive for the plebs, and that of course is intentional so the riff-raff is kept at bay.
Exclusive this and private that are being built by the rich for the rich, and we can see that with hotels, restaurants, high-end shops, golf courses, apartments, resorts, casinos, tourism and whatever else needs a gold-plated membership card.
For the rich they don't just like a recession, they wallow in it, as this is a golden opportunity to buy up cheap and grind the plebs further into the quagmire.
Of course there are a few good ones, but a lot of the charitable gestures are simply recommended by agents who tell the mega rich that giving a bit looks good on the CV. Of course they would all deny that, but that doesn't matter as nobody believes anybody today, no matter what they say.
David Wallis
Medan
