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Dear John,
many movies and series try to convince us how sad it is to be rich, famous and beautiful; many series explore the problems and worries of the rich people. In the past, I thought I won't need many things and could restrict myself to the absolut minimum. But the older I get, the more things I accumulate. Every time I move (we move), I need a bigger car to move my possessions. And the older I get, the more I think it to be a good thing to be rich. Rich people can buy themself health, that means, better terms of living, more and better food, more and better medical care; they live longer. I think they are, in spite of the propaganda of the TV series, not less content than the poor.
It is not just. Why does some people earn so much more money than other people? Because we are working so much and so hard, they sometimes say. But that's a quite outdated theory. That theory of the rich is, I think, a last remaining of Karl Marx' (or better: Ricardo's) theory of the worth of a product being equivalent to the time of producing it. Nobody believes in this theory any more, expect for the richs in the case of the worth of work itself. A manager doesn't get more money than a scrubwoman because he has so many unpaid overtime or because he did spent more time for his education, or at least this isn't the most important reason. The main reason is that a company think it to be very important to have a good, preferable the best affordable manager, while on the other hand it is thought to be quite unimportant wether they employ a good or a worse scrubwoman, since one scrubwoman is just as good as another.

Yours,
Sofia