The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
Interpretation
The value of a society is reflected in how much its members feel valued and important.
Mary McAleese emphasizes that when individuals feel valued in a society, it reflects both moral decency and economic effectiveness. A society that promotes inclusivity and recognizes the worth of all its members is likely to prosper, as it fosters trust, productivity, and social cohesion, which in turn benefits the economy.
In practice
During a community meeting discussing social welfare programs.
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.
One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.
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