Sandel's 'Putting A Price On The Good Things In Life'

Sandel answers this questions by showing how our society is one of corruption and inequality. For example, in the video with Stephen Colbert, he talks about inequality of salaries between professional baseball players and teachers. The professional baseball players they were talking about made twenty-five million dollars a year compared to teachers who make an average forty-five thousand a year. I also do agree that some professions overpay like in some positions in sports, but then again everyone knows when either signing up for a players position or a teachers position, what the given salary is. His strongest argument in this article was when he stated, “When we decide that certain goods may be bought and sold, we decide, at least implicitly, that it is appropriate to treat them as commodities, as instruments of profit and use.” (Sandel, 2012, 29) That was a powerful statement because it really shows how our society rates things as being more or less important depending on the price. A sad example Sandel used was when talking in the past about slavery. This was one of the worst ways people rated another in the lowest form of putting a price on a person.