How Do You Define Morality?

[Undertoad]

Most cultures value it.



and people within those cultures exchange it for goods and services

[limey]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Do you have to make everything about you?...You keep saying it is a great idea, but have yet to SHOW it.

I choose to talk about my own experience (other posts in this thread have been criticised for talking generalities). Oh, and I have cleaned out the most appalling domestic kitchen bins full of maggots, so that's a start... I have tried to show from my own experience that I prefer a job in which I find "job satisfaction" to one which pays well, but will accept one which pays well to achieve my financial short term goals. If they were paid equally I'd choose the "worse" (to many people's way of thinking) job of washing shit off people, to sitting in a office.
I agree with DanaC that there are many people who thrive on the responsiblity/big wheel thing for the sake of it, rather than specifically for the cash. I'm not one of them.

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Exactly. I would not do those jobs... I would just fail the test on purpose.

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Actually, I would just leave such a place and go where people appreciate excellence.
Which is what happens to socialist nations, those who excel, the artists and inventors leave.

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

I do not feel that way. If that had been the case I would have chosen jobs/careers differently. I turned down a job with my family that would have made me quite rich. Even causing some hard feelings for a few years.
I did not want the job. The money was not even a consideration.
The two, the work and what you get for it, are not equivelent... but one must feel that the two are fairly connected.

in the above quotes the bold emphasis is mine. I don't mind that all these posts are about you. You are talking about your own experience.

[limey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Most cultures value it.



and people within those cultures exchange it for goods and services

Which brings us to the question of which goods and services you exchange it for ... which are necessities and which are luxuries?



and who is to decide? Or is it, if you step back a little, just common sense?