Ages ago, I was a Night Counselor at a school for boys --- I made it a point to attend the weekly staff meetings. Once, there was a not particularly bright you

Ages ago, I was a Night Counselor at a school for boys --- I made it a point to attend the weekly staff meetings. Once, there was a not particularly bright young man who had been at the school for almost a year, which was longer than most students and it was suggested that he simply be removed from the program on the basis that he hadn't made much progress recently, and wasn't likely to, to which one of the other counselors commented, "He's only going to be a janitor anyway." (referring to his lack of intellect) and another rejoined, "Yeah, one who pilfers stuff when no one is looking." --- my response was that if we kept him in the program and pushed him to graduate we would get an honest janitor who wouldn't steal and that there was dignity and worth in that. The lead counselor agreed, he stayed, and a couple of months later he was graduated. A couple of years later, I met him in a nearby town --- he was attending a trade school and about to graduate. When I was much younger than he was, I worked each summer baling hay --- I was 104 pounds when I enlisted in the Air Force, and I was quite a bit less than that at 14--16 --- but I picked up 40--75 lb. hay bales and put them on a truck until the field was empty. As regards compensation at Amazon --- when I first started, folks got stock, but then that was negotiated away for more immediate compensation, so I don't understand why folks complain about not sharing in Amazon's valuation. The fundamental problem is that there is a finite amount of work which needs to be done each day so as to make it possible that each person has food and electric and so forth, as well as whatever else they might want --- how is that work to be apportioned out?