Rare sight of police on foot patrol in Whanganui during Covid-19 lockdown.
Reflect on what's important
As Covid-19 takes its course and with lockdown, loss of jobs and limits placed on our physical movements, it's a time to reflect on what's really important. If we have a roof over our heads, warmth, adequate clothing, sufficient food, good health, a few modern trappings
for some comfort and to function along with access to essential services then we have to basics to maintain or create a good life.
To overly bemoan a reduced income or diminished bank balance, where all the above are in place, is to miss the purpose and meaning of our existence I feel. I urge those to whom this applies to spare a thought for those who do not have those basics as outlined. Maslow's hierarchy of needs clearly illustrates that those struggling to meet basic survival needs don't have the luxury of being preoccupied with such things, or the higher needs as portrayed in his pyramid.
To potentially enjoy a full rewarding life, I maintain that sufficiency is more than enough. Surplus to sufficiency and not sharing that surplus where survival need is the issue is undeniably and largely explanatory of the very evident distressed state of the world, where 10 per cent own 90 per cent of the world's wealth. Finally, I disagree with Mike Hosking on many things, but his stance refuting the worthiness of a universal income, I agree with. This, as reportedly being considered in the US and UK, won't work, I concur. Financial assistance, in my view needs to be targeted to need, as is currently happening.
PAUL BABER
Aramoho
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