THE PROFESSOR
|
In Eric Sager’s book, The Plumber and the Professor (FriesenPress, 2021) two cousins argue about inequality over a lasagna dinner one evening. They compare a single mother living with her young son in Southern Ontario on $65 a day to an empty-nester CEO living with his wife in Toronto on $30,000 a day.
Their conversation deepens and they consider why the top 1% have so much more than the rest. They realize that this increasing inequality has created a rift amongst people, a decline in community, which is a weakening of a shared sense of responsibility. And where inequality is greatest, social cohesion is weakest. - B.C. BookLook, August 2021, interview with author Eric Sager (available for reading).
Also by Eric W. Sager...
|