Sucking it up

Subject: Sucking it up.

Parsimony - spareness in the use of ones resources, a careful husbanding of what you have, as opposed to being proliferate and reckless, especially with money.
The news this morning was of Neymar the Brazilian footballer is to be transferred from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a transfer fee of just short of 200 million pounds whilst receiving a salary of 42 million pounds per anum. These figures are financially stratospheric and bear little or no relevance to what we, mere mortals receive for working each year. It makes a mockery of 'worth' in terms of each persons labour and only has relevance in the synthetic world of advertising and brand projection.
The artificiality of our lives was greatly hastened by the manufacture of uninhibited credit and the synthetic need to spend money generated by the advertising industry.

Martin Sorrall the CEO of WWP, the huge advertising conglomerate, is paid 45 million a year, a reduction from last year when he received 70 million pounds.

With the average salary of a worker in this country being 23,000 per anum and the average pay of a company CEO being 4 million, you can see how 'unfettered capitalism' manufactures  gross disfigurement in the social structure within a country. 

Work has, at its heart, the ramification of decision making.  The argument that Martin Sorrels daily decisions are worth a multiple of 2000 times more than his employees, employees who's creative stimulus are the basis on which the company relies  to be successful in the first place, simply does not stack up.
As with so many things in this system of unfettered capitalism, it is completely out of balance and puts enormous strain on the credulity of the man in the street. Without a sense of fair play and reasonable equity people become disillusioned and a,"them and us" physiology develops. The national social fabric is a relatively fragile thing and a sense of give and take gets us through many tough times. We can expect that the readjustment leaving the EU will bring is just such a moment of stress and I t is not the time to put undue pressure on the population on the assumption that people will simply suck it up.