Everyone can tell when he’s been treated unfairly. But to say when you have not been justly dealt with – this is so easy.
A half a soda bottle
A child has spent, sweat and drink in a large Swallow more than half of a soda bottle should share it with the sibling. The Glaring Injustice! The sibling that had until a moment ago, no thirst, and peacefully painted, protested. So it couldn’t be. I haven’t the half of it, I have less. I’m thirsty, too. So now.
Something similar happens in all the companies. What kind of society is fair? And how unjust our Federal Republican society? Many of us do not know. We have the feeling that I am more in the middle of the society, or slightly below, “up there” are other people. Even rich people with a private plane and without any money worries believe of themselves that they were “upper middle class”. Because there are far richer people than you.
Don’t talk about money
Most not it is difficult to assess yourself, but also “the other”. How much does a carpenter earn in average? Or a member of the Board in a DAX-listed company? How high the average rent is in a southern German town, or a Westphalian village? And as I stand there in relation to these other people in other Professions and other places? Therefore, the righteousness is a question of subjectively distorted: I Am the child that is thirsty, and more than half of the bottle empty has been drinking, or I am the child that has become out of sheer Anger thirsty and complained? Almost say that I’m greedy or self-pitying?
How can you ensure a company that I will be treated fairly? And not only I, but as many people as possible? What kind of society we should aspire to be: A pyramid with a small top layer, a slender middle of the society and a broad base of poor people? Hardly. The inverse model: a pyramid, which stands on the top, with a large upper layer and only a few that don’t belong there? Also not a nice idea, and unrealistic. And even in a society with a broad middle and small upper and lower layers, there is injustice.
The workers in the vineyard
A famous parable, told by Jesus, offers a solution to the problem of justice. The workers in the vineyard: A winery sets from the morning until the evening always new people to work for. And at the end everyone gets the wage of a day. As much as you need for a day to live on. No matter how long each of the workers. The story is often understood as an image: Before God all are equal and no one is left behind. Anyone who has added his part to the Christian community, is to come in the sky. It’s not about merit, it is grace.
But why not the story too so understand how you did Jesus, according to the report, the Bible tells us? It’s about money, it’s about economies, and justice. In the biblical parable, there is a Top and Bottom, unequal people: An owner that can work. Workers who do the work. Someone pays and someone who is paid. But at the end of the day, no one has so little that it is not enough to live. And this is precisely where I should be today, a fair society can be observed: How do you deal with the poor, the Weaker. In this perspective, justice would be enough: At the end of’s for each. And it is the responsibility of all of us, to ensure that it is so. It is not even out, where in society I structure of standing – whether at the top, middle, or rather down. We can’t leave it alone, people who are rich, to take care of people who are poorer, as a society will never be fair.
About The Author:
Björn Raddatz was in 1970 as a pastor’s kid born and studied in Mainz and Bonn, and theology. Now, he works as an Internet editor at a TV station.