The financial and social value of an activity are drifting further and further apart. The wages of the nursing staff are just one particularly blatant example of this.
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If we were to measure professional services by their value for the general public and accordingly reward them, we would not pay the nursing staff with applause.
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Lately I have been concerned with the question of whether we actually see things as valuable because they actually have a lot of value – or just because they cost a lot. Since I was earning my own money and no longer barely surviving, I have gradually started to afford things that were previously beyond the realm of the imaginable.
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