JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON WHETHER THE HUMAN CONDITION WILL GET BETTER? PART 3.
'There is the human aspiration that things, life and living for all of humanity, should continue to get better. That we should all be able to participate in the good life, which, at its minimum. Could be defined as having a reasonable standard of living, including accommodation, good health, freedom from poverty, and a liveable income. In terms of 'western liberal democracy', this minimum standard of living has also been broadened to include a society based on secularism, freedom of speech, and a 'democratically elected and maintained government. But, is such a world really realisable, when the fortune of a person and state can, and does changes and fluctuates from one day, and one year or decade to the next?' Will they be able to organise their economies and welfare systems in such a way as to achieve a proper balance. Between maintaining or slowing the erosion of the 'living standards' of those who have achieved a rel