Does society lack a sufficient number of committed community caretakers? Are too many people young and old suffering from a lack of sufficient care and concern? Or are people getting what they need?
When you look around at the community, do you notice many who need more and/or different to be fulfilled, happy, satisfied?
I'm wondering if we're suffering a bit as a collective society because we haven't paid enough attention to the kind of care people need to thrive. I know that most schools have classrooms with too-big numbers for sufficient, life enriching education and care. It's impossible for a teacher today to care for children in classes of more than 12--honestly we know so much about what it means to learn and live well, and that is not easily translated in large classrooms since teachers simply cannot provide the individual care that benefits children well. That's why many wealthy folk choose private schools with very low teacher-student ratios.
Similarly, the fractured state of health care places many people at a disadvantage. Rather than regularly attending a community health center that has a wide range of quality health services, people have to visit multiple centers of health care to get their regular vaccines, preventative tests, and care for health needs. This fractured health environment makes people dependent on transportation, time off from work, and often times support to attend appointments which prevent many from getting the care they need.
In addition, so many of our basic needs from food to shelter to transportation are more dependent on the profit-making of major companies than a service-oriented mindset that helps people attain the safest, most positive foods, transportation, homes, and recreation.
Society has to turn its attention to service to one another. That is the perfect response to growing automation and the increasing wage divide--we must tax every individual to pay a respectful percentage of their income to support greater service to one another. In return we will gain healthier, happier, safer communities where people thrive. We can do that.