Eight Post

In my last post, we left of with J.D. conniving his way into his new role of town swindler. He deceives the town poor kids into thinking that he is giving them just compensation for doing all his chores, while he is really only giving them half of what they earned. When his parents notice the other kids doing their son’s chores, they immediately are on to him. At dinner, they confront him about his plot, asking why Frank and Allan Jensen are doing all his chores. Thinking on his feet, he says that he figured that 20¢ was too much for one boy to have every week, and that he thought that he’d pay the Jensen boys, who don’t have enough money to get allowances, 5¢ each to do Tom’s part of the chores. He is shocked when his parents praise him for his generosity and thoughtfulness. This continues until the week after when his mother notices his sitting on the fence watching the Jensens doing all the chores again. She goes back inside to have a word with her husband Thomas. At dinner that evening, they have a word again with J.D. They say that it is unfair and immoral to make the two boys do the same work he had to do the first to weeks and only pay them half the money. That is were I will stop for this post, and you can clearly see the moral issue. It is similar to hiring two people to answer phones and when they do the same work, paying one $10 an hour and the other only $5 per hour.