Letter to the editor: The social contract of a civilized society

The following are remarks made by Elizabeth Warren in 2011: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. … You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

There is a social contract when you live in a civilized society. We need to care about one another and have each other’s back, because we depend and rely on each other. No matter your race or religion, we are all in this together.

Jackie Hartwick

North Versailles