Dear Sir/Madam,

So the BBC is planning to pay David Jason more than £300,000 for a 3-episode revival of Only Fools and Horses (£1m puts Del Boy back on screen, 8 August, 2001).

I realise that this is not an exceptionally high sum for a film or TV star to receive, but it is nevertheless more than the majority of people can hope to earn for 15 years of hard and often essential (which is more than be said of film making) work.

The terrible thing is not that the BBC plans to pay this immoral sum from licence payers’ fees, but that most people accepted it as being perfectly normal, instead of crying out in protest.

No wonder so many people resort to crime or feel so discontented with their lives. Where is the motivation or satisfaction for doing an honest day’s work when it is not considered to be worth more than a few minutes of some film or TV star’s time?

We live in terribly corrupt times, but barely recognise it, because the corruption is so normal.

When I point out the immorality of paying someone 50 times the average wage, I am simply told that there are others who “earn” a 100 times as much or more.

Or I'm told that it’s the way society - the economy - works.

It is the way we make it or let it work. It is thoroughly corrupt and must surely lead to our destruction.