Too stupid to catch the message.

I want the monetary profit motive taken out of many of life's endeavors. Medicine, for instance. Medicine and our health care system should be designed to serve the common good. Without making much, if any, profit. When somebody discovers a new drug that benefits people, let's make it available to everyone. At minimal cost. Without people, even the inventor, making a huge profit. Instead, let's do what's best for society, as a whole. It's not a good idea for a few select individuals to reap a monetary fortune. And maybe doctors should work for an established annual salary. Like at the Mayo Clinic. A reasonable salary. But nothing exorbitant. Shouldn't be essential that anyone has to become a millionaire. Especially a multi-millionaire. The pursuit of medicine should be for the purpose of making people healthy. Through medicine. Through health care. Not to make people monetarily rich. Some day, I expect society will evolve in such a manner. And generations from now, people will look back on the 21st century as an extremely selfish era. When boundless greed prevailed. We'll all have become far more civilized. More decent. In terms of serving the common good. People will go into their professions not to make excessive amounts of money, but to do good. For society on the whole. Seems to me that's what the true blue religious leaders have been trying to teach us. For a long, long time. But we don't get the message. Even that guy Jesus was telling us that. In his Sermon on the Mount. But we don't listen. Or we are far too stupid or stubborn to catch the message. --Jim Broede