{"id":18364,"date":"2022-01-25T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=18364"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:47:14","slug":"humanity-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/humanity-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Capitalism is survival of the fittest. Dog eat dog. Caveat emptor. Profits and power are the cornerstone of the elite class, a self made royalty in a society that measures value and worth by the dollar and acre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, most of us ordinary people see the importance of the common good. We recognize the inherent value in taking care of everyone, not just the ones who would kill and eat everyone else in order to ensure their own survival. As human beings, adopting degrees of Socialism is the acknowledgement that we’ve transcended to those higher places. It’s evolution of the species, to a new place, where we learn take care of our own. ALL of them, even if they don’t look like us or speak our tongue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Socialism doesn’t mean everyone gets an equal share, like in communism. Instead, socialism seeks to ensure that everyone gets an equal chance, and less lives are wasted. Even a capitalist should be able to grok the concept of less waste. Isn’t prevention of wasted human potential just as important as protecting human life itself?
Our society should be made up of haves and have-mores, instead of haves and have-nots. The rich can still get richer. They just can’t do it by exploiting people to the point of sickness, starvation and homelessness. THAT sounds like Humanism to me…and shouldn’t we ALL be humanists? #HumanityFirst ~jg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Capitalism is survival of the fittest. Dog eat dog. Caveat emptor. Profits and power are the cornerstone of the elite class, a self made royalty in a society that measures value and worth by the dollar and acre. In contrast, most of us ordinary people see the importance of the common good. 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