Hey everyone. Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. I'm your host John Harris and I wanted to show you today a little bit about what it looks like in my neck of the woods during the fall.

So I'm not far from my house. There's a ridge behind me and it's just

spectacular. It's past peak a little bit, but lots of yellows and reds, even some greens still.

Some trees have lost their leaves completely.

And the sun's actually starting to go down

so you can see it's just brilliant behind me. The sky is starting to see some yellows and coming

from there so I'm enjoying it because I can be in a short-sleeved shirt today. There's not many days like this this time of year.

And it's great for photography when it's kind of overcast, which it is right now.

So I thought this was a good setting to talk about what I want to talk about,

which is answering a important question,

one that I think we probably all have asked to an extent, and that is,

why is there such a disparity that exists between those on the bottom of hierarchies today and those at the top in

various institutions. Those who consume goods and services, and then those who produce or regulate them.

And I said in the last podcast that I believe that managerial elites today, those who do inhabit

the tops of these hierarchies, behave in ways that were different from

those in generations past. I think in generations past, especially in

Christian civilization, there was much more of a respect, a mutual respect for those who were at the bottom of hierarchy.

So landowners relied in those who generally lived on their land, worked the land, labor relationships, the same way.

I gave some examples of this in the last episode.

I think the reason for it though in times past or at least some of the

reasons one would be there was more of a Christian understanding so look at our Constitution presidents Presidents have to take an oath of

office. Well that didn't come out of a vacuum. That's something that was

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