Kindness, compassion, integrity, generosity, genuine interest in those around you. To take a true, heartfelt interest in the people you have around you. Smiling a real, true, honest smile. None can be better.
The video starts as would be expected. Nearer the end he speaks of the attitude toward work today in America. It’s absolutely worth viewing.
I’d really like to have the power of persuasion this young man has.
A topic of moral philosophy which usually generates a fair amount of debate is the topic of need based compensation versus ability based compensation.
One side argues that ones need usurps another’s right to compensation for ability.
(I’ve already given myself away here.)
The idea for many years has been a talking point for proponents of socialistic or communistic governments. “Just because one man has the ability to produce that of two does not justify doubling his income. It is the need of that man that should determine his compensation. Why does a man with no children need to be compensated more than a man who does? This is for the benefit of society as a whole, not just as an individual.” The argument is that everyone will end up with a higher standard of living as long as everyone contributes to the good of everyone else. Very altruistic.
There are many inherent problems that this belief causes.
A man will only come to resent all of his fellow men as a result of this belief. One would look at the dollar of the man who produces more than him as his own. Thus creating animosity for the man who produces more. That same man will look at the men who make less than him with contempt because he believes that his dollar is his own. Thus creating animosity for the man who produces less.
Men start to hide any sign that they have ability for fear of inheriting more responsibility than his neighbor that receives the same compensation for less production.
Men start to resent other men for their needs. Their needs having a tangible effect on ones own compensation.
To increase ones station in life you must plead your need to some authority which determines ones need versus everyone else’s.
Profitable production weans as no man wants to produce more than they must to maintain.
Why invent something new? Why innovate current technologies? Why invest in research of any kind? Why cure any disease? Why invest years of ones life and tremendous assets to become a Doctor? Why achieve anything above the bare minimum to receive compensation?
Do not argue pride to this. A mans pride is not in his need, it is in his ability.
One can only reasonably conclude that an objective based approach to living is the only truly moral and honest way to live. Allowing someone to earn compensation and take pride in ones own labor, to take pride in it is what provides innovation, technology, methodology, cures for diseases, food surpluses ect.
This is the only true way of life.
A morning at the races.
Nature is a stubborn subject matter.
Is there a lack of beauty or a lack of perception?
