Quote:
Originally Posted by Cherry7
Because if you pay billions to reward an idea of little value other things don't get done. No cure for cancer, malaria, or the basics that people don't have fresh water, homes, food.
It is a matter of proportion. The guy made a neat program not e=mc2.
The reward was totally out of proportion to the value.
A society that wanted to give all its children an equal chance could do so in a heart beat.
Send the poorest 7% of children to the private schools and the children of the rich to the poorest state schools.
In the future humans will not believe that we sent the most privalaged children to the best schools and then blamed the poor for failure.
|
What makes you think things will change in the future? Since the beginning of recorded history those who have more have sent their kids to the best schools and supplied their families with the best things. You think this will change? How so? Who in the future is going to force those with more money to send their kids to the poorest schools?
The creator of Facebook has made the money he has because society has deemed the product that valuable. Millions of people worldwide use that site and thus the creator of it has reaped the benefits of having millions of customers. If society really wanted to focus on stamping out cancer they would do it. Every person would find a group that is working to discover a cure and donate money to them. One of the problems is that instead of having one group focusing on fixing the issue there are multiple groups competing for the cure and there are entire businesses making millions raising money to defeat cancer. Personally I have more outrage over people like the Susan G. Komen foundation that raises millions for breast cancer research and only gives a tiny percentage of the money to the actual research while paying CEOs millions, flying in private jets and having offices in skyscrapers, than I do a guy who created a website and made millions from it.
You are correct that if society wanted to give every child an equal chance they could. But they don't. This isn't as much "the man" holding them down, it is them deciding what they want to do and not what to do. All over the nation cities and local districts vote down school budgets. Many people don't give a damn about their local schools. A city could easily come together, oust those who are not helping the situation and raise money to make the school as good as possible, but it is not easy. Many people simply don't care. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
You seem to have some vision that the future will be some utopian society where everyone has an equal change and the meek will inherit the earth. Why do you think this will happen when our history shows that it simply is not the case?