This graph says it all. Our society has its priorities completely and hopelessly messed up. We are doomed. No society with priorities like this has a chance to really compete on the global market place.

“Panem et circenses” is what the average Roman said when the emperor asked the people what they wanted. “Bread and circuses” or “bread and games” was their answer.

We do just that now. We pay millions of dollars to grown men that play kids games on television, we pay their coaches three times what we pay our university  presidents and 12 times what we pay our tenured professors, and we are happy with that.

Judge Judy on television makes $123,000 a day, or about $45 million a year. The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court makes $217,400 a year. Associate Justices make $208,100 a year. Therefore, Judge Judy makes over $43 million a year more than the nine Supreme Court Justices combined.

Panem et circenses!