Continuing on to the New World
Making decisions that put people first
There was a lot of excitement and promise when settlers first arrived in the New World. There was room to grow and opportunities for all. A lot of hard work has been done and good progress made. But after an encouraging start we’ve gotten bogged down by allowing our lives to drift from the central element of life: people.
Society and happiness have always had people at their core. The value and strengths of people enrich our days and power our communities and industries. It’s a truth that fuels our optimism and builds our shared achievements.
As our technology and businesses advanced we came to know prosperity, health and meaningful employment. In the Near Golden Age, in the 1950s through the 1970s, people, business and government worked together to raise the standard of living and to move forward on important civil rights. Regular folks prospered and had good and achievable hopes for the future.
But along the way, those who valued money above people grew unsatisfied with merely owning luxurious yachts and homes. They learned how to use their wealth in aggressive and effective ways, to push our society and world ever further away from a focus on people. Their wealth gave them power over laws, advertising and business strategies, and led us all into the current quagmire of poverty, joblessness and doubt about our future.
Left unchanged and unchallenged, our current path would bring us lower lows and harder struggles were it not for one amazing and unstoppable thing: people.
People, not money, are the way out, and the rightful beneficiaries of our combined efforts, time and creativity.
While there’s a vital role for money, business and the financial sector, they need to be the servants, not the masters, of people and society.
We need to reset the balance of our time and efforts, to swing it back to its natural focus on people, community and shared well-being.
The way we start is by making decisions that put people first — in our personal lives, in our businesses, and in our policies — that challenge the messages that unlimited greed is good and that we should be afraid of social change.
Together, people get things done. Together, we can bring the focus of our world back onto people.
From: NeoPeopleism
