For Richer or Poorer. When should Money Count?
Is it right that in otherwise similar circumstances ...
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a rich person becomes better educated than a poor person?
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a rich person is acquitted but a poor person is found guilty?
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a rich person lives but a rich person dies?
If these things are true, do we have unfair, uncaring and brutal society? And if they are not true, what on earth is the point of earning money? What is the point of making money, if I can't use it to make myself or my children better educated? Should spending money on a better defense yield better result? Should spending money on health care prolong and preserve live? If have money, should I be allowed to spend it to increase my chances of survival? If I am not allowed to do so – if I must die even though I have the means to prevent my death - isn't that an unfair, uncaring and brutal society.
PO: The ultimately insoluble problem of a health care system is: "in what otherwise similar circumstances should a rich person live, but a poor person die?"
If the answer is "never" we have infinitely expensive health care system, but if the answer is anything else we have an uncrossable divide.