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Monday, August 8, 2011

Daily Kos: What is your most important value?

Daily Kos: What is your most important value?

What is your most important value?

I ask this question for a simple reason. It seems that value that drives the other side in our political debate is money. It is a mentality that I heard often in the 80s, you know, the period when LifeStyles of the Rich and Famous was considered by some 'must watch TV.' It is the mindset that gave rise to the expression also common in that period that "he who dies with the most toys wins."

It is a mindset that measures and values everything solely by some artificial economic standard.

It means those who make more are automatically more important than those who do the work that enables them to live comfortably. Thus lawyers in private practice are more valuable than those in government service - except