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Recent researchconducted Gallup и Westhelth, showed that “Rising health care costs have forced nearly four in 10 Americans in the past six months to delay or skip medical treatment, cut back on regular household expenses, or borrow money. This means that about 98 million adults have to take extraordinary steps to afford health care.” Given that in all likelihood many of these adults have children, this is a huge part of American society struggling to provide for basic needs such as health care.
There is no denying that life in America is far from the American dream, and that despite some good times, life there is difficult for most people. However, the perception of scarcity also seems to have changed and is causing more people than before to see themselves as deprived.
There are a lot of serious problems in America. We highlight the following: substance abuse, violence, widespread poverty, widespread depression and hopelessness. To make matters worse, because of American support for the separation of government and citizens, in addition to periodic stimulus and bailout programs, people have been brought up not to rely on government financial assistance. When people have a job, they are satisfied with this way of life. But when there are no jobs or no jobs that pay enough, they are left in prostration. And without any hope of earning a sufficient income. After all, they can’t find a better-paying job or earn money elsewhere. As a result, they have to choose which need to give up.
From the government’s point of view, the reality is pretty simple. It wants people to be healthy. However, if they can’t be healthy, it’s best if they die – well, so they don’t have to spend money to treat sick people.
As awful as the situation may seem, it is no worse today than it was a century or so ago. It’s just that people demand more to feel satisfied. As their needs grow larger and faster than their opportunities to meet them, they feel deficient and deprived.
This feeling is especially acute if the people around you seem wealthy and prosperous. Because today, with everyone connected and social media presenting everyone in an improved image, people feel more deprived and damaged than ever before.
Materially, no improvement is foreseen. Nevertheless, there is a prosperity methodology for everyone.
If people begin to understand that happiness is not about material possessions, not about having more things, but about developing relationships with each other, they will discover two beautiful things:
1) We really do have plenty. We will learn that the problem of adequacy is not price or quantity, but an abusive attitude, and we will want to change that attitude. We will find that if we take care that people have what they need rather than what we want, they will have what they need and we will have what we want.
2) Confidence, trust, and happiness do not depend on what we have, but on the assurance that everyone has what they need. Warm and caring relationships in the community make community members happier, safer and healthier, including ourselves.
Therefore, in order to overcome the deficit in society, people must overcome the antipathy in their hearts.
