And people over in [site community profile] dw_news are *still* complaining about what they've lost....

Apr. 24th, 2006 12:06 am
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Isn't there a parable about this? Something about how the laborer is worthy of his hire?

A guy wanting to bring in his harvest hired people in the morning to help him, but when he saw he didn't have enough people he went back in the afternoon to hire more people to help him, and when that still wasn't enough he went back a few hours later for still more people - and then paid everybody the same flat wage, right?

And Jesus' response was pretty much "Yeah, it's unfair, suck it up", right?

Something like that*.

Of course, Jesus wasn't talking about LiveJournal, I think he was talking about Heaven, but the point still remains. If you buy a t-shirt for $25, and the very next day it goes on sale for $5, yeah, that sucks, but you're not going to whine that the store cheated you.

Well, probably. I may be overestimating the sense of the average LiveJournal user here. This isn't even the same thing! It's like if the store started selling cheap knock-offs for $5.

*Corrections to my version of events are more than welcome

Date: 2006-04-24 07:57 am (UTC)
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TBH I'm not quite sure what the moral of the Prodigal Son is supposed to be.

The father's answer to the "good" son must have sounded like "it's unfair, suck it up" to him, though.

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