You talk about selfish societies, but most people in highly paid jobs have to work incredibly hard to get there. It isn't handed to them on a plate by any means, so what's selfish about that? Why should someone study hard and work long, stressful hours, to earn the same as someone who either doesn't have the drive, the interest, the ambition or the intelligence to push himself into a well paid occupation?
Additionally, if we did away with 'horrible jobs', then society would suffer. Imagine a world without dustmen.
Degrees would be awarded randomly, so does that mean that someone leaving school with barely the ability to read and write could be qualified to work as a brain surgeon? Rather he work on your brain than mine!
Lonnie, no everyone certainly wasn't equal in communist Russia. Far from it. Some were always more equal than others - and it showed!