Xmas and New Year are approaching and I’m already wondering what the new year has in store for us. Are the poor just going to become more poor and the rich even richer?
I think back many years ago, South Africa was still the biggest producer of gold. Every evening during the news on radio the news reader would inform its listeners what the gold price for the day was. If it went up, we would all be extremely happy. Now I can’t say why we were happy. We were all rather poor and most certainly did not own any share in a gold mine. None of our relatives worked in the mines. Neither were any of us involved in gold smuggling. Nonetheless, we were happy when the gold price went up.
Today, the riches of the world is owned by 1% of humanity. About 50% of all people are very poor. But what do they do? They rejoice when they hear how rich Bill Gates is. They are mesmerized when looking at the splendor and glamour of the Hollywood glitterati. Why? Nobody knows.
This makes me think of the man who wanted to proof that his horse could live without food. So he started by reducing the horses’ daily rations in very small portions. But just as he reached the point where the horse would receive no further feed, it died. The man was very unhappy and told everyone who wanted to listen that, if the horse did not die, he would have proven that a horse can live without food.
I don’t know why I’m telling the story because it does not really fit. Nevertheless, I think that the gap between rich and poor has grown so wide that we, ordinary mortals, are at the point where the horse was when it perished. But nothing will get us under. We will survive. The gold price must just rise and Bill Gates must get richer. Then we will be happy too.
J.C.Grobler.
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