Neoliberalism perpetrates the myth that egalitarian living will be achieved by letting the ‘knowing few’ running big businesses, banking, finance and the markets run riot with minimum restraint.

The biggest part of the lie is the suggestion that by allowing private interests to control everything through the removal of regulations, the creation of rules that help them, their own interpretation of any rules and the subsequent abuse of a broken legal system to enforce them, everyone and the public good will be truly well-served.

However, the truth that we are now experiencing is that by deregulating markets and financial activity to the extent that has already taken place, the power that should be in the hands of legislators and policy makers on behalf of us all, has been passed to private interests whose priority is greed, profit and not the public interest in any way.

They haven’t finished. The extension and growth of Neoliberalism is dependent upon reducing the reach and impact of government at every level.

It doesn’t matter what process is followed or becomes necessary for the Neoliberal outcome to be achieved.

Smaller government is a key Neoliberalist aim because the less government there is, the more power and influence will have been transferred into private hands.

The outcomes for the people who need good governance most of all can only get worse under the Neoliberal view of smaller government, as it will be impossible for even the status quo to be maintained.

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Government and politicians have willfully overlooked this truth for decades, whilst helping to remove the regulation and safety barriers that once helped to keep life for the lowest paid affordable to live.

Whilst many pour score upon the lowest paid and society’s most vulnerable and buy into the propaganda that their financial misery is somehow self-inflicted and that only they are at fault, the truth is that the prices of all the essential basics that we all need would never have escalated and reached the unstoppable highs that they have already, if the whole business and financial system hadn’t been manipulated to serve the interests of profiteering and greed.

We have all been conditioned and enslaved by money, the accumulation of material wealth and the status that goes with it.

These are the only things in this world that count. Today.

The function of every real business and organisation is to provide goods or services that support or improve the lives of people. Not to generate income. Yet the businesses that don’t do anything to support or improve the lives of people are the ones pushing up prices and making life for everyone else so hard.

This, the cost-of-living crisis and all of the UKs social problems have come into being because we have become obsessed with money as the key priority in life, rather than having values and humanity which are the benchmark of how a good life should be.

However, the world is changing, and it is changing fast. Nothing is certain in the way that we used to believe, and we are now experiencing a time of chaos and change that cannot offer any certain outcomes for any of us, unless we all embrace the need for meaningful change as a conscious and voluntary choice.

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We can only solve the problems that society faces if we give the lowest paid the means and opportunity to earn enough to sustain themselves independently and without the need for support.

The national minimum or living wage will never achieve this, because within this broken financial system, the nearer the minimum wage gets to the true cost of living, the faster the cost of all the essentials that we all need will inflate or go up.

We need nothing less than a paradigm shift from a money-centric system to one that puts people first in every respect.

The Basic Living Standard introduces the principle of Locality Based Economics and offers the basis of a new financial system in which we can achieve financial freedom for ALL.

If you are looking for fiction, this is no story. But the snapshots, views and experiences that you are about to share will make you question much that you previously accepted as truth.

Everything you are about to read about the past, about what we are experiencing today and where the future could take us is certainly interconnected.

But the way that the world works suggests that every issue that has happened, that we are experiencing and that we will need to address in the future, sits in isolation in some way.

Until we see the relationship that exists between everything and the problems we face, then accept that we will only solve those problems by thinking differently, our future will continue to be written by interests that will never be aligned with our own.

Touching on everything that relates to the way this Country is run, from education to cryptocurrency, the true value of money, to growing food at home and rules for the internet and AI, Days of Ends and New Beginnings lifts the stone and shines light on many of the issues, motives and reasons for the problems society faces, that have until now been carefully hidden from view.

Repurposing the inevitable period of chaos and change we are now experiencing so the outcome is meaningful change that will benefit us all isn’t a certainty. But by considering what is likely to change, what positive change will look like, and how we can take steps to thrive and survive as we experience that change, the chances are that we can all become a positive influence on what our future will be.

If you are ready to embrace meaningful change, it’s time to look inside.

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.