A World That Lets Workers Starve Is Evil

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A World That Lets Workers Starve Is Evil

Xuefeng

August 15, 2025

The most beautiful sight in this world is the figure of the worker:
the street cleaner sweeping the roads,
the farmer laboring under the sun in the fields,
the migrant worker hauling bricks and pouring cement on a construction site,
the factory hand on the assembly line,
the waiter weaving through a crowded restaurant with trays of food and drink,
the cashier and delivery clerk in a busy mall,
the courier darting through streets and alleys,
the cook preparing meals for strangers in a kitchen.

All who live by the strength of their bodies, who earn their bread with sweat to support themselves and their families—these are the true emblems of beauty in our world.

Workers are the foundation of the great edifice of humanity’s survival and continuation.
To give them dignity, to allow them stability, to secure their daily bread—this is the cornerstone of a civilized society.

To measure human worth by wealth is false; it runs against the law of civilization.
Yes, the thoughts of visionaries carry epoch-making value.
Yes, innovation and invention enrich life.
Yes, entrepreneurs take risks to bring new goods and services into being, and it is natural that they enjoy better conditions.

But to weigh a person’s value by the size of their fortune—that is not only wrong, it is evil.

Labor creates value. Status does not. Power does not. Fame and money do not.
Governments, officials, and civil servants create no value.
Judges, lawyers, police, and armies create no value.
Degrees and diplomas, experts and professors—knowledge alone creates nothing.
Only when knowledge is transformed into wealth that sustains life does it become value.

If a society honors wealth and rank but disregards the dignity and survival of workers, then without question that society is evil, its government is evil, and its values are evil.

Imagine a society forced to choose whom to keep and whom to cast away. Who would you choose?

My answer is simple: keep the workers, the scientists, the entrepreneurs.
The rest are dispensable.

What about you?