What Should We Get Paid?

When I started this blog, it was just a way to get across certain things I've pondered. Then I wanted the blog to help as a way of getting exposure to my writings on the Internet; and I wanted to cover wider and deeper issues in a wider and deeper context.

Well, what can I say? I don't think those things are working as far as this blog is concerned. So, I'd like to begin making this blog personal...but in a deeper and wider context.

I was on Facebook this morning, doing that micro-blogging thing, and was considering posting a status update on a particular subject. The subject was pay, wages, income: And in the context of the social setting which we consider acceptable, the acceptable being entirely unacceptable to me.

Here's what I'm talking about: We seem to believe that only some people deserve help, which is generally measured by income and how well someone has adhered to the assumptions and rules of the social and economic order: Hard work, having a job, being a good boy and girl. Doesn't matter how destructive all of that is, how much heart disease you get from it or how much it diverts you from doing what you love and what you need to do for your sanity and health. The fact that most welfare recipients work on jobs that do not pay for basic needs hasn't deterred anyone from this ludicrous thought that such people are not deserving of help; however, it seems acceptable that banks and corporations deserve bail-outs even though their only function is to make money and to make more money for those who already have a lot of it. Baffling.

So, if we are going to continue with this system and approve of it and follow it and propagate it to our children, co-workers, and friends, then I'd like to propose an adjustment in the system.

I propose that we reverse the income brackets. The CEO whose only function is to make money, which essentially does no one any good except to continue the system of corruption, should be paid minimum wage; because currently, the care-providers, the artists, and others who actually help people and give what is good to society are making the least amount of money and taking the heaviest burden. So, the care-providers, the ones who take care of children and those with disabilities and the aged, the people doing the work that is obviously necessary and helps the whole of society, should receive millions of dollars an hour, like a CEO. Same goes for artists, writers, dancers, photographers, painters, and others who contribute to the culture, illuminate and give insights.

Yes, I know, it's all so crazy how I talk. As if things aren't already crazy and backwards.