The public health would be at serious risk were it not for hospital cleaners, dustmen (garbage collectors)sewage workers, etc.

The well being of preschool children whose personalities and entire learning lives are being developed are in the hands of low paid under appreciated nursery workers.

A growing population of infirm adults (elderly and longer living disabled) rely on low paid support workers.

If you ask me the current way is an uncivilised caste system.

Pay should be in line with education you say. Seems to me there are plenty of engineers, (I know 2 personally) scientists, teachers, etc. either underemployed and/or working second jobs in order to keep roof over head, pay for car (and carparking) or train to work, while the CEO of the bank that screwed up their savings, made it impossible to pay off education loans and mortgages, resides in one of a number of expensive houses, drives one of a number of expensive vehicles, etc.

What exactly has that CEO contributed to the any of the people mentioned above? Not a jot to the family of the lady who died from MRSA because the private nursing home she lived in cut back on cleaning staff. Or to the children in overcrowded and under supplied classrooms or the young brilliant mould breaking research scientist who lost his job because the company had to make economies somewhere and they certainly couldn't reduce the marketing and finance managers' pay packages or perks.

And how many banks are actually lending money to any one these days? Including businesses which create jobs. Not many. It must be bad, because Essex County Council took it upon itself to create the Essex Bank, using taxes to promote business in Essex. It can't get much more fucked up.

Time to turn over the money lenders tables, chase them out of the temple and rethink the whole gawd damned system.