There used to be no distinctions between life and work. You gathered food, created shelter and provided for yourself. You may have been part of a tribe, but generally people took care of themselves.
Then, with specialization came a new paradigm. People could make spears all day, while others foraged for all day. Then, they could exchange their items, allowing both parties to focus on their strengths. Still, at this point, people all acted in service of one another in their close vicinity.
Now, we’re living in a different reality. Rather than creating a spear, that will help your neighbor hunt, that will provide more food for your tribe, you have people providing financial instruments to other other people providing financial instruments.
While these jobs represent specialization in a played out form, it starts to create an insurmountable empathy gap. The people playing business with each other never intersect with the tangible reality of other human’s lives. Unlike in an early tribe, your services are worthless to people of another class and experience set.
What results is a class of people able to live comfortably while playing business with one another, and many classes of people left feeling unheard and unseen.
We need to see more, hear more and do more to bring ALL up with us. The system is rigged against the people who need it most. Humans must act.