Justice By Coincidence
Religious people believe in a higher power sometimes doing justice. As a non-believer, I certainly disagree. But sometimes justice happens by coincidence. The following is an example.
One of my neighbors had a job with a cleaning company. In the year 2000, before the €uro, she got paid 10 DM per hour (1 €uro = 1.96 DM). After the deduction of taxes, health and pension insurance, I estimate that what was paid to her was about 1200 DM per month, barely enough to survive.
She worked hard for outrageously low wages and the owner of the company got rich from her and her colleagues' hard labor. He was able to afford for himself and his wife a luxury vacation in the Caribbean, which according to a web page was available for a minimum price per person of 11.000 DM and upwards.
They paid for the vacation, but they never got there. They travelled in the Concorde, the air plane that crashed in Paris in the summer of 2000. It was a tragic accident, and nobody deserves such a horrible death.
But these people have brought it upon themselves with their cruel and ruthless greed of exploiting the hard working cleaners. Had they paid decent wages and lived more modestly, they most probably would still be alive.
Religious people believe in a higher power sometimes doing justice. As a non-believer, I certainly disagree. But sometimes justice happens by coincidence. The following is an example.
One of my neighbors had a job with a cleaning company. In the year 2000, before the €uro, she got paid 10 DM per hour (1 €uro = 1.96 DM). After the deduction of taxes, health and pension insurance, I estimate that what was paid to her was about 1200 DM per month, barely enough to survive.
She worked hard for outrageously low wages and the owner of the company got rich from her and her colleagues' hard labor. He was able to afford for himself and his wife a luxury vacation in the Caribbean, which according to a web page was available for a minimum price per person of 11.000 DM and upwards.
They paid for the vacation, but they never got there. They travelled in the Concorde, the air plane that crashed in Paris in the summer of 2000. It was a tragic accident, and nobody deserves such a horrible death.
But these people have brought it upon themselves with their cruel and ruthless greed of exploiting the hard working cleaners. Had they paid decent wages and lived more modestly, they most probably would still be alive.
