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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Seems like a fortuitous time to reflect on this #BahaiPrayer by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá:

“O Thou kind Lord! This gathering is turning to Thee. These hearts are radiant with Thy love. These minds and spirits are exhilarated by the message of Thy glad-tidings.
O God! Let this American democracy become glorious in spiritual degrees even as it has aspired to material degrees, and render this just government victorious.
Confirm this revered nation to upraise the standard of the oneness of humanity, to promulgate the Most Great Peace, to become thereby most glorious and praiseworthy among all the nations of the world.
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Platform: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/eng…
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1/2
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The ideal social system incentivizes #participation by everyone on vast global #platforms where they exchange their time and its inherent value to generate sufficient #profit that, when shared, meets their basic needs and creates opportunities for their reasonable quality of life
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