Good work the benchmark for a good income
Maybe it is time to analyse the reasons for such a situation. Surely all have benefited to some extent from the Celtic Tiger. But the key question is to what extent has every section gained. Of course some have gained handsomely, while others have not.
If wealth has not percolated down equally to all sections of the community, why not?
Is it due to greed, tax evasion, profiteering, our system of remuneration or is it just a policy issue.
In conscience I have a duty as a citizen of this state never to be directly or indirectly responsible for the poverty and oppression of others.
There are issues of justice and morality here. Many have never experienced what it is really like to be poor in the first place and to have suffered under the yoke of poverty and oppression. Such people are never affected by recessions. Surely more of our wealth should trickle down more equally to the less well-off, and less to the already well-off. The equal distribution of wealth is a common responsibility; we should strive in the interests of the common good of all, and not for the benefit of the few.
Why have there been such huge discrepancies in salaries in this country down the years?
I believe it is time to have a radical look at the concept of work and workmanship. Let the criterion be the end product, and let us reward accordingly. What principles and guidelines do we use in the distribution of wealth anyway? It is time to get real.
Michael Ruane,
6, Upper Gardiner Street,
Dublin 1.
