Some thought on social disparities

So I accompanied my mother to the specialist this morning to help her translate. For a 25minute consultation with the specialist, it cost her $320.

I was a little shocked and disgusted by the ridiculousness of the price.  I mean I knew specialists made a lot, but charging that kind of price and getting away with it is like getting away with murder.

But walking out of there, I felt a sense of  righteous anger rise up within me. I know that these doctors have worked very hard to get to where they are today, but to charge average citizens like my mother half of her week's wage just for a 25mintue consultation is just fucking bullshit. No wonder most people cannot afford to see a doctor. Its professions like this that contribute to social disparities between the rich and the poor. While ordinary people have to work just as hard everyday if not harder only to make 1/20th of what he makes, people in high end professions sit in their own offices with their own receptionists, and enjoy a tax cut from John Key.

Its not my mother that's sick, its this society.

So, I've come to the conclusion that i need to study harder, and work harder, so that one day I can charge him a ridiculous amount of money too if he just wants to build something in his own backyard.