How would you feel if society left you behind?

If you lost your job and had no savings or help from loved ones to fall back on, how would you feel if you took any job you could to find that you still couldn’t afford to live?

If benefits put you in the same position, would you take the job or conclude it would be better to just ‘sign on’?

Without enough money to pay every bill, to eat, to stay warm, to travel and do everything else you need to do for yourself, would you feel good about selling yourself to a prospective employer – especially as the worry of the debt you are in starts to mount up?

These are all real questions that increasing numbers of people are asking themselves today and every day.

The real travesty is that too many others have been asking these same questions for a very long time and without the cost-of-living crisis and runaway inflation problem, had previously been hidden from our view.

Our obsession with money and the accumulation of material wealth has meant leaving increasing numbers of people behind. Whilst a broken and privately controlled money system has steadily funneled the volume and value that we believe money to have towards a progressively smaller number of ‘the few’.

We have been conditioned to believe that for us to experience material wealth, abundance and to be financially rich, that others must have the experience of being vulnerable or poor.

It is an equation that works well. Until we find that we ourselves are the ones who need the help – as many of us living in this broken system regrettably now are.

Everything wrong with society that we see whether it’s price inflation, crime, crumbling public services or out of touch politicians, are all symptomatic of the same thing:

We don’t value each person as a human being, and we don’t value every person in the same way.

The key to a better life, better future and a better world for all, is a return to values and humanity that can only be achieved by shifting the focus of everything to locality and to ensuring that every person is able to sustain themselves financially, without the need for support.