quality

What is it that makes one person worth employing for £1m plus a year, while the masses have to get by on less, some very substantially less? The argument goes that there is a special band of superhuman beings who unless they are paid very large sums will leave the country and ply their expensive trade in some other part of the world. We cannot, apparently, afford to lose 'top quality' people to head up the really important commercial organisations, and public bodies that sustain our national life. There are some who follow the example of the wealthy people described recently by Ian Hislop on a BBC programme 'When Bankers were Good''. But the rest can go, and see if they really can con some offshore organisation willing to shovel money their way: I for one doubt it.  The people of real quality who undergird this nation are not necessarily the super-wealthy, and our future as a nation doesn't depend on them. Whether or not we thrive depends on more than financial tactics by governments of left or right. It depends, as Abraham found pleading for Sodom, on whether there were as few as ten 'righteous' people' in the city (Genesis 18). That may or may not include moral purity: it certainly includes people of compassion, and obedience to God's commandments.