----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Fink <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:46 pm Subject: RE: FW: [Vo]:[OT] H1N1 Synchronicity
> > > > > how do you measure person's effort? > by a person's income? > > Harry > > > > Effort is what is required to put an ability or talent to work. > Except for > the severely handicapped, we all have things we can do, whether it be > picking berries out of someone's field or picking tumors out of > someone'sbrain. The market place determines the value of a person's > ability. The ability to carry a financial burden seems to be the most valued ability these days. The ability to shoulder other kinds of burdens seems to be devalued. > We all > seek to use our ability where it is valued the most. We want to > make the > most money for our effort. If farmer A is paying me $6.00 an hour > to pick > berries, and I hear that farmer B down the road is hiring for $6.50 > perhour, I'm going to quit farmer A and hire on with farmer B, as > long as I > have the freedom to choose where I work. > Can a migrant worker who is dissatisfied with $6.50 per hour become > a brain > surgeon? Only in America! I read about it in Reader's Digest. > > This is a first class example of equal opportunity, but it took > tremendouseffort to make this migrant worker's desire a reality, > and so it should. If > you are going under the knife, do you want this guy, or someone who > got his > degree the easy way? What is the "easy" way? > I have a friend Jozef from Slovakia back when it was > Czechoslovakia. He was > in med school intending to be a doctor. He ran afoul of the communist > government on faith issues, was removed from med school and > assigned to be > an X-ray technician (no freedom of choice here). That may not sound > too bad > to some people on this forum, but what you don't know is that, at > that time, > eastern European facilities used no shielding: X-ray technician was > a death > sentence. (Isn't communism wonderful?) Soon after, he escaped to > freedomin the US where he could be what he wanted. > > By the way, he immigrated legally. So in your mind people will only make an effort when they are also working to meet a financial obligation. Harry
