No justice?

I must assume that Robin Abcarian’s Christmas Day story on the composition of the sappy holiday classic “Silver Bells” was in reality intended more as an indictment of a ridiculously flawed economic system than as a tribute to the song and its creators [“Still They Ring,” Dec. 25].

Lyricist Ray Evans, by his own account, spent two days grudgingly writing lyrics for “Silver Bells” over 50 years ago and since has enjoyed huge royalties, now around $600,000 a year, which will continue to be received by Evans and his heirs for another 45 years.

By contrast, a typical farmworker can expect to spend an entire lifetime of back-breaking labor under very difficult working conditions to possibly earn approximately the same amount.

Joe Hackett

Goleta