Waste of Space

Simply put, how can we justify footballers, actors, and musicians being paid so much money?

Nurses,  Firemen, Military and the Police that have to deal daily with the most challenging and life threatening situations to make our lives safe and are paid a pittance while celebrities, actors, and footballers are paid in a week what these people earn in a year to prance around in their money fuelled hedonistic fantasy.

Imagine cutting out dead children from car pileups or treating violent alcoholics who thank you with a punch in the face or fighting for your life in a far away battle that most people disagree with only to be forgotten when you return.

It is blatantly obvious that this madness creates a distorted view of life that idealises the cultural celebs rather than the true heroes who are constantly trying to keep our country a safe place to live in. This failing is the responsibility of the mass who consume cultural trash which feeds the demand for this tripe produced in vacuous TV and magazines.

Solution  1
Grade all jobs by their relevance to the social, economic and political well being of the country and its danger for the individual in that job. Force highly paid useless jobs that are graded low on this scale to pay extremely high rates of National Insurance to support the very people who keep them safe every day.

Solution 2
Force all earners of over a million a year in useless jobs to do public service jobs for a certain period each year to instill a sense of social responsibility.

Solution 3
Take the mass population of consumers of fatuous publications and shit TV to Dartmoor and test experimental ordinance on them.

"Nice one Fred"

City bonuses represent a fundamental abuse and insult to the average citizen. How can people justify earning in one year what many of us could never earn in an entire lifetime? On top of these obscene payouts is the complete lack of accountability that means when an executive performs poorly they are usually given a healthy severance and usually they find another cushy position waiting for them after ruining lives sometimes on an unprecedented scale. This coupled with the fact that Bankers on the whole make money almost exclusively from exploiting the very poorest with outrageous interest rates and charges that push many people into a cycle of debt and effective slavery to the Banks  and its shareholders.

Suggestion  1

The New Scientist ran a fantastic article that restricted executive earnings related proportionately to the lowest paid members of staff. Whether this was x5, x10,  or x20 of the lowest wage this would still allow executives to earn what would be considered a very high wage without the obscene excesses that currently are available to fat cats. Of course I have simplified the idea here, but I think this kind of approach is fair. It would also be fair for legislation to be put in place to force companies to profit share to their employees limiting the obscene dividends paid out to company directors.

Suggestion 2

Cap interest rates for loans/credit cards and legislate to stop Banks constantly bombarding us with offers for loans and sending us endless credit card cheques that encourage people to become even more debt laden.

Suggestion 3

Sack them all, take away all their assets, and make them work in a Job Centre, any refusing to do this are slowly dropped into a vat consisting of all of their liquidised assets as cash which has been mulched into an appropriate pap that would eventually drown them.

"I think you'll find you have my money."

Whenever we hear in the news that another failed executive has just sacked half his workforce while paying himself an obscene bonus, or when we discover another politician embroiled in some kind of political corruption, we all spit with fury and, for a fleeting moment, we dream of storming parliament on PM’s question time with a Kalashnikov screaming “Die you motherfuckers”; hosing them all down, then setting off the 300 ton fertilizer bomb we planted under the foundations blowing all the fuckers and yourself sky high. This brief moment of nihilism, worthy of any fundamentalist’s praise, is a brief musing for most of us, sick of the continual lack of conscience within the elite in our society.

So I have decided to get together my little list of Social Injustice which represents many of the outrages that we all moan about but do very little to stop. Accompanying these I have a few suggestions and welcome anyone to add more suggestions or more cases of injustice that continue to annoy average Joes and fuel revolutionary dreams.