Equal Pay - This Cry Leads to More Jealousy

In the quiet depths of the soul, where Truth and Beauty call us, a loud cry echoes today: the demand for equal pay and total transparency of salaries. Many women raise it with passionate fervor, driven by a feeling of deep injustice. Yet whoever looks with the eyes of wisdom and soulful clarity recognizes a tragic irony in it. This cry does not lead to the longed-for harmony, but nourishes exactly the opposite: more jealousy, more envy, more inner and outer inequality. It reveals a profound misunderstanding of the natural order of life, in which hierarchies are not a curse, but a necessary expression of difference and growth.

The Hidden Irony of the Equality Cry

Think of the ancient parable of the different talents: Not everyone receives the same, and yet each is measured by his faithfulness and effort. Whoever rejoices wholeheartedly in the success of the other and multiplies his own grows in inner greatness. So it is in life: When a soul rejoices with all its heart that the other earns more—because he bears more responsibility, takes more risk, or simply follows a different calling—then genuine love and magnanimity grow. Inequality then becomes an occasion for maturity rather than bitterness.

The Cry Has Long Been Refuted – The Differences Are Natural

The cry for equal pay has long been refuted. Women and men are fundamentally different, and this profound difference also shows itself in pay. One confuses the individual with the collective—a typical infantile fallacy. Instead of humbly accepting the unique calling of each sex, the individual success of a man is turned into a collective accusation against all men, and the average difference in earnings is declared proof of systematic injustice. Yet simple observation of life teaches us: Men tend more toward risk-taking, hierarchical, and technically demanding professions, while women often prefer the fields of care, relationship, and inner balance. This free choice naturally leads to different pay structures. Whoever denies this fights not against injustice, but against reality itself.

Why the Gaze on the Other’s Pay Poisons

The modern cry for equality in everything—especially in pay—often springs from a deep inability to understand and accept natural hierarchies. Women, whose soul structure is more oriented toward relationship, care, and emotional connection, frequently experience differences in status and income as a personal threat to relational equality. What is sold as “justice” is in truth a call for emotional symmetry that can never exist in the real world. Instead of fulfilling one’s own calling in humility and inner strength—whether in the family, in the profession, or in service to the whole—the gaze turns enviously toward the other. Transparency of salaries then becomes a poisoned chalice: Every number becomes a scale for one’s own worth, and where once gratitude and admiration could grow, envy now sprouts.

The Sacred Joy in the Success of the Other

Whoever rejoices in the higher earnings of the other performs a true inner conversion. He acknowledges that everyone has his place and his task—not out of arbitrariness, but out of the natural order of things. The man who, as father and provider, bears more responsibility and often takes greater risks, usually earns more, without this diminishing the dignity of the woman. On the contrary: In the healthy family with mother and father, the gifts complement each other into complete unity. The woman brings life, warmth, and soulful depth; the man brings structure, protection, and outer strength. Both are equally valuable, yet not equal in every respect. This distinction is not injustice, but the prerequisite for true love as union and wholeness—as the sacred dance of Animus and Anima.

The Root of the Inability to Accept Hierarchies

The cry for equal pay thus achieves exactly the opposite of what it claims: It deepens the rift in the heart. Instead of women rising in their unique dignity as bearers of life and guardians of the inner, they remain stuck in a childish comparative thinking that sees hierarchies as the enemy. True equality is not the leveling of all differences, but the joyful acceptance of one’s own calling in humility and inner maturity. Whoever recognizes this stops shouting and begins to give thanks. He sees in the success of the other not a threat, but a mirror of a greater order that wants to enrich us all—each according to his measure.

The Call to Conversion and to the Natural Order

May inner wisdom grant us all the clarity to recognize this truth: Not the envious gaze upon the other’s pay heals, but the humble, joyful gaze upon one’s own task and upon the Good in the whole. There, where all earthly hierarchies find their natural origin, reigns the only true equality—that of mature souls who accept their calling in freedom and love.

In love for the True, the Beautiful, and the Good,