Society

[Beanz]

You can justify means of state ordered assistance, you can call it immoral, you can vilify the rich for taking advantage of a system, you can vilify the poor for taking advantage of a system, you can vilify the system itself. At the end of the day none of it matters, there simply are not enough resources to sustain the standard of living we have learned to expect in modern life.

Yes I go with the point you made, but say I have 10 house's I can only live in one at a time, some
have so MUCH, were others have so little the gap is far to wide.
This is my take you have a Doctor, his earnings say hundred thousand £ a year, his cleaner that
keeps his surgery clean, say they earn £6000 per year.
The Doctor you would say saves lives etc, and is paid accordingly but why do we undervalue the cleaner there job is important.
In one Scandinavian country I can't recall which one, the gap is much less they value both people
have they got it right maybe.

In some cases like the doctors case here, it cost him a fortune in time and money to get where he got to,he also has to be on call and also had to do some really dirty work before becoming a Gp. He also has to pay rent on the building and public liability insurance as well as all the other insurances incl building and accident.

I know what you are saying but MEH a bit. My doctor is a nit and sometimes I feel I would be better sitting down and speaking to the cleaner for five minutes. There is also the fact that there are care workers like my daughter on the national minimum wage of £6 an hour who have to sit with those dieing in pain while some doctors can not even be bothered to write a morphine prescription. She then has to wash and prep the recently deceased as well as the dealing with peoples day to day bodily functions etc while a doctor sits in his office. UK doctors (General Practitioners) usually don't work out of hours any more that is another service.

Doctors may not be the best example but there comes a point where people lose touch with the everyday lives of the people who they are there to serve, those who pay their wages. When I worked in the Criminal Justice system this was very apparent with Barristers, (Junior and QC's) but particularly Judges who with no idea of the impossible conditions that legal case workers, Police, Court and administrative staff had to work under and would Lord it above all and sundry even outside of the courtroom.