I just heard on the radio that a director from some huge international company is going to get such a massive pay off when he leaves ( after 2 years ) that it would pay the water and electricity bill for an average family in England for 9 1/2 thousand years! And I am thinking, there is no longer any place in this world where sanity prevails. Either we are all killing each other or hating each other or paying each other off with huge amounts of money because we are so bad at our jobs. And at the other end of the scale we are making it almost impossible for working parents to afford to go to work.
Also on the radio this morning, they were talking about the Universe. Apparently we have now found thousands of planets similar to earth. But I am wondering if the retiring director, about to earn more money than most of us can even dream of, actually orbits the same sun as the rest of us. It's hard to imagine them walking on the same planet as a single parent who is wondering if they will make next month's rent. I sit and watch the sun rising from our kitchen window and hope that, when that, in 91/2 thousand years when the money would have run out, the world ( if it is still here ) has become a fairer, saner, more balanced place where the orbits of rich and poor collide.
Rant over.
I survived my first run. My feet felt fantastic in my new shoes, not so sure about the rest of me. Wondering if I could pay an immoral amount of money to buy a new body as well. And taxes- 8% complete. Might not be able to pay our bills for the next 91/2 thousand years, but will soon be able to pay them for last year.
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