06 June, 2010

Scapegoats in Angers medias

In many printed medias of Angers, tribunes dedicated to readers blame a part of the population they call "the wealthy"for their responsabilities of the present economic crisis. The most frequent critics point out the implication of these scapegoats in the level of the unemployment, the weakness of the growth and, recently, the reform of the retirement system and so on...

The problem of these critics is they use constantly these words without never define them. Who is rich? From which amount of revenues? From which origin of wealth : creation of a company, heritage, lottery?

The first strangeness of that thought is the critics are always aimed at managers. But many other persons could be considered as wealthy : actors, professionnal sportsmen, singers (whose life is weekly talked up in these medias) and even politicians! The most fervent duty the wealthy should have is the distribution of the wealth, write (or shout in recent demonstrations in Angers) the plaintives. But can we share what has not be created first?

Another strangeness is the cult of the difference (in religion, sexual inclination...) but the unwillingness to accept differences in economic positions. People are not only a sum of physical needs (even if, of course, somme basic needs must be provided). But how would be life in a society where everybody would look alike?

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