These are instructive times. Are you paying attention?
The coronavirus is not only causing a few problems. It’s highlighting a few things I suspect a lot of us feel uncomfortable confronting.
Try these for size.
Why do we, as a society, tolerate homelessness? Why do we tolerate some individuals taking billions of dollars out of circulation while others have to live and beg in the streets — even in the richest nation on earth? I’ve lived in New York. I’ve seen them.
But the truth is, there are homeless people in every city in every country. Why is that?
Why do we pay entertainers, like footballers and movie stars, millions of dollars while paying a pittance to first responders and health workers.
Who are the important people right now? The highly paid executives or the workers growing or making stuff and delivering it to the supermarkets and hospitals?
Right now, the guy stacking the shelves in your local supermarket or the one driving the truck delivering PPE to hospitals is more important than those highly paid executives worrying about their bonuses because the market has tanked.
If you don’t work in the essential industries that keep us alive, the people that do are more important than you or me at the moment. Question is, why do we pay them so little…