The prevailing social system assigns individual responsibility to each member to engage in paid or unpaid work for as much time as necessary to acquire basic needs—at a minimum.
Should one not be able to do that due to physical and / or mental limitations, then society provides a safety net that makes up the difference—to some degree.
Woe to those who do not engage in paid and unpaid work long enough, hard enough, or smart enough to generate sufficient means to meet their basic needs OR produce evidence that they have physical and / or mental limitations preventing them from doing so.
For they are classified as “slackers” (or another disparaging term) who are too lazy to earn a living for themselves and deserve little aid in return.
How could the social system be organized such that everyone, regardless of their personal circumstances, contributes value to the global commons sufficient to cover their basic needs and increase their quality of life?
Today, the value of any member of the dominant social system directly relates to that person’s socio-economic standing. The social system apportions opportunities to elevate one’s position in the socio-economic hierarchy commensurate with the degree of privilege one is born into.
How should I behave if I accept that we are all members of the same human family; the energy waves and fields of the cosmos and the love of God bind us altogether; and the behaviors of any one of us in the social system to which we all belong affects everyone else in some manner?
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