Money and Society

Taking public transport for intra-city commutes is an excellent way to have time for oneself provided you have a seat to be seated. I realized this only yesterday.
It was 4 in the afternoon and I boarded a bus to reach Velachery. The conductor asked me where I wanted to go and gave a printed ticket to me. As I was exchanging money for the ticket a thought entered my mind "what would have happened if I did not have money to buy a ticket, would I be denied a travel on the bus? Should taking public transport be a privilege of people who have money to buy the ticket?" I put the ticket safely in my pocket conscious of the fact that there will be a checking squad waiting at the Velachery bus station and sit down to muse on this strange thought.
Should people without money be denied locomotion? Money - I start to explore the origin and motive of money. How does one make money? One makes money when he does work. Society through an employer pays money as a token of benefit it derived from him. There are other ways, if you are a business man you are paid for making something available for the society and if you are service provider you are paid for providing with a service. This is necessarily the philosophy behind money. Nevertheless there are other ways of acquiring money - I say "acquiring" because it is not "earning" in the following cases. One can still steal, appropriate or cheat people to fill his pockets. But this does not happen with out a price. The price is respect in the society and its interest is a tag of criminal attached by people around if it is petty issue and by law in all the other crimes of considerable magnitude.With this we have finished discussing about the ethical issues involved in work but is everybody who does some beneficial work or the other respected by the society equally? How is the compensation decided for a piece of work? Is everybody equally rewarded for the same amount of work? The first question would leads us to the concept of "dignity of labor". A scavenger who helps you to keep your washrooms clean does not get the same respect as your plumber who fixes the taps in the same washroom, why? A farm labor who works 12 hours a day manages bare minimum wages but a software engineer( I am one of them) who works the same 12 hours earns disproportionate amount of money and wants more, why? A man in the farm earns more money than a woman who works along with him for the same 12 hours. A person, having the same experience in years, coming from a different company and doing the same work gets paid more than the incumbent employee, why? As I try to figure out why, the bus arrives at Velachery bus station and I am pulled out of my thoughts with the driver slamming on the brakes. I understand one thing before I alight the bus, money is not all that bad. However controversial money might be it is a token of your worthiness that society issues.But money should not be a motive in itself, it should be a by product.