tombi123 said:
In no way is money a reflection of hard work and dedication. I work in a restuarant kitchen. The head chef work 15 hour shifts, 6 days a week. For the amount of hard work and dedication he puts in he should be a millionaire. He isn't, he works for a modest wage. I'm guessing you earn quite a lot... I just feel that our obsession with money is holding human potential back... |
I worded that poorly. I should have said “hard work and dedication to bettering society”.
I am sure your co-worker works hard, but if he was hit by a bus tomorrow, his job could be filled in an afternoon. For different reasons, the same applies to a school teachers, police officers, or firemen.
Teaching is an incredibly noble profession, and extremely valuable thing for a country, but the individual who teaches is not worth more, because so many people of equal competence exist. If no one wanted to teach people, they would get paid a lot more.
If you need 10 teachers but have 20, you becoming a the 21st teacher does nothing to better anything.
A great baseball player is worth all that money, because of two reasons. One is he makes the owner more then he costs (that's the bet anyway when they give him that salary), and because if he was not there, no one else could do his job as good as him.
If everyone could play baseball like a-rod, he wouldn't make any money. While bettering society though entertainment is not nearly as noble, it's still a better society with popular sports figures in it. Millions of people get a lot of enjoyment from watching baseball, and thus the people who provide that enjoyment are paid handsomely for it.
If your friend wants more money, he needs to find something less easy to replace.
