Banker versus Nurses

A subject that has been in the media quite often recently is bonuses and cuts. Bonuses for banker and cuts in the NHS health sector. Especially when it comes to staff, people had to accept a lot of negative news. Most people would agree nurses are more important than banker and therefore should be paid better. They look after the old and sick and get paid peanuts for the work they do.
Banker – on the other hand –do nothing or at least not much and get paid fortunes. But is this actually true? Fact is nurses are needed and should get paid better. But are banker really that bad. I think the two cannot be compared. Nurses work for the society and are mainly paid by the government (us). Banker work for the private sector. As long as both do the job they are meant to do, it will be a fact that Banker earn more money as they simply create profit for the company they work for. Nurses on the other hand create moral values but no monetary ones. As long as a nurse is valued by society and can make a decent living with her or his wage things are ok. But in recent years this has gone wrong. Banker have made huge mistakes which affected everybody and have not been punished for it. Nurses had their wages cut and staff have lost their job even though they did not do anything wrong. Fact is there will always be people who want to become nurses, as it is a satisfying job – providing the work and working hours are doable and the money is ok. Nobody would become a banker, if they would not get paid what the get paid. Believe it or not – banker work hard. It is no rarity to work 70 or more hours per week. Also, (decent) bankers are needed in a modern society. But they should have to take responsibility for their mistakes just as nurses have to. This means banks who had to be bailed out by the taxpayer should not pay bonuses to their stuff until they paid back the money they borrowed and nurses who are desperately needed should not loose their job. It could all be so easy…