A tiny Ming Dynasty tea cup has just fetched $36 million. One has to wonder about the disconnect in the global society when people can afford these huge sums of money whilst people within the same society earn $1 a day for working 12 hours and more.
Its hideously disproportionate and mirrors the crazy wages paid to our footballers in this country whilst our Government chase people on Benefits or have an empty bedroom and therefore have either to move to a smaller house (of which there aren't any) or pay an extra rent for the room. Our papers are full of grim stories about the unpleasant, work shy underbelly of our society, people who do not work and claim roughly £60 a week to support their families.
A picture is painted by our media of the unhealthy benefit scrounger, as it whip's up public opinion to castigate their fellow citizen and cast the benefit culture as the reason for all our financial woes.
1. It would be thought improper to shine a light on the person who can afford $36 million on a trinket.
2. The way he has accumulated such wealth or if he has paid his full tax contribution to the society.
Perhaps being able to employ people on a $1 a day contributes in no small way to his accumulation but since we are all in hock to places like China the questions are not asked, the unrepresented poor are a much easier whipping boy
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