Hello everyone, my name is Nicole and i have always found the existence of humans weird. From our beginnings to the possible future, there is no straightforward answer to anything involving the human existence. For example, how did we get here? Many of you will have a different answer, or at least, can guess what the answers are based off of common belief of how we started. From religion to science, there are too many hypothesis about our beginnings. How about our future? We believe in the ideology of advanced technology, we have seen this ideology in media where the future is depicted with flying cars, teleportation, and better ways of life. But my point still stands, everyone has a different perspective of where out future is heading, therefore, none of the futures we predict will actually happen because no one knows what will happen. There are again, too many hypothesis to make an accurate prediction.
How about the present? Are we happy where we are now? I know im not, im not upset either. I am struggling to pay rent, i am struggling to keep up on bills, i am struggling to find the right time to buy new clothes when the old ones get holes in it. The present is something we all have to live in, there is no changing it because this is the hand we were all dealt. Yet, sometimes the present is seen as good to some people and the worst time for others. Our perspective mixed with our reality create this sense of good and bad for every person here. I am struggling to pay rent but at least i can barely make it by the end of the month. Some people, no matter how hard they try, can't pay rent or pay any bills for that matter. But, here's the thing, not paying bills can be seen as both good and bad, it just depends on your perspective. You can say that its bad because now you may loss your house, but others will say its good because maybe they wanted your house and if you leaving means that can finally get the house they want, then why should they be upset over your loss? Now, this is a hypothetical, but the reality is, because of our population, there is a good probability this has happened and will happen as our population grows. I am not going to give specific examples with dates and names because hypotheticals allow us to think about situations without an emotional attachment, which will then help us actually create solutions and not temporary ones because certain people got into specific situations and need help. Everybody needs help. There are misfortunes and natural disasters everyday and yes, that can flip somebodys world upside down, but instead of waiting for those to happen and then create a solution at that moment, lets shift the focus on creating a better system that plans for the unpredictable. Now, i don't know what those systems and solutions will look like now, but since our future is so hazy, how about we truly start working together. Not just letting those of the upper class or those with the most money make the decisions. The most important step in anything is brain storming, allowing all ideas to emerge and possibly mixing all those ideas into something that can not only benefit for one group of people, but for everyone.
This does need an open mind to work, we need to allow ideas to emerge. Hear me out, currently, we work on helping the homeless, creating better environments and places for them to live that doesn't include the streets. But what is that doing to prevent more people from becoming homeless? We constantly raise the minimum wage to what appears to be the agreed "livable wage" but how can a set number be a livable wage when everybody has a different life. When one person needs to spend more in medicine for conditions they were born with, how can we agree that they have to pay more in life but still receive the same amount as those without those medical bills? Now i know the world is unfair, but does it need to be? Think about it, how can we agree on a future, a ideal "better" future when everybody has a different meaning of "better". Should life be more affordable in the future? Should it be more welcoming to those with less income? Should it be completely destroyed and get rid of humans altogether, will that be better? We don't know, that's the thing, nobody currently knows. Until we start thinking of new ideas, something that can truly benefit everyone, only then can we all agree to something.
When we agree, it is easier to work together, that way we aren't fighting each other and trying to win an argument. But, words are not actions. For anything to change, we will need to start a movement or have those with current power in law making to be on the peoples side. But convincing people what to do is actually the easy part, or even spreading the word and displaying a better system is easy when the majority of people in our population can see it being beneficial. The hard part is creating a new system altogether that can make the poor and the rich see eye to eye, and benefit everyone in between.
I've had this idea where we make certain jobs a requirement instead of education. Now, with an open mind, we need to think about the future, not the present, so in order to have lets say, the younger generation have an opportunity to move up in the career world, they have to work at a specific job for X amount of time to be considered for something that has higher pay. For example, instead of a degree to be considered for a manager position at a grocery store, you must work a fast food service job for six months. Then when they have worked for the six months, when considered for the manager position, all education needed for the position is learned as you work and you already have the customer service experience needed.
For more educationally focused jobs, like a teacher or doctor, yes having previous education is a benefit but some people can't afford that, so what if we create other opportunities to enter those fields instead of relying on school debts to carry us through school just to maybe make it into a degree based career. And how about the moments when you realize you don't like the profession you went after, its one thing to spend all your money going into med school just to realize at the end that you made a huge mistake, you don't like it, and now you just spend all your life savings.
The other idea i had was making it a requirement for everyone to work a customer service based job for X amount of months, to make everyone understand how hard it is sometimes. There have been multiple times where a customer blames the cashier for something when the cashier is just working within the system of the store, but when having everyone work as a cashier, then customers will ideally be more patient and learn that the problem lays within the system, not the cashier. Which will make everyone then agree on ways to fix the system because they too have been in that position. When making a customer service job a requirement it allows those who don't like it or want to improve it to have the motivation to do something, instead of saying "that's not my job". Which in the long run, will have more people agreeing with each other and would ideally have them working together. This also allows everybody to be on the same playing field. Those with no education or those with lots, all have to start at the same level, this creates equal opportunity since some people can't afford education. Then when wanting to move up in the career world, we change it to where you work certain jobs as a requirement, not education. With any additional education you need be paid through the jobs and you get hands on training at the same time.
But the challenge of creating a "better" system is not for me alone, we need more ideas, there is no "bad" ideas, when it may take something that is depicted as a "bad" idea to bring another idea to light. Don't think of ideas as "bad" or "good", we should be considering all ideas right now and like i mentioned before, mix ideas and allow something new to emerge. Change cannot happen when we follow the same rules because we already know what will happen. When following the same rules, we follow the pattern. So, lets change some rules and make the default pattern more like a safety net where everybody can still make a living, with or without education. We cannot let the default pattern of living paycheck to paycheck and having one emergency be the reason we become homeless, or live everyday depressed and full of anxiety because there is no savings or back up options. The safety net should be in place to keep up afloat and to remove some anxiety about money worries.
In my story description, i wrote "born to think or think to live". What i mean by that is, were you born in the generation that told you to think outside the box but it was more a suggestion then a requirement, like, in order to stand out you needed to think outside the box, to stand out. Or were you born in the generation where you have to think outside the box to live your life. Where its more of a requirement to get through life with everything you do must be something that hasn't been done before, that's the only way to live.
When ideas have already been used, how can one person stand out when what they want to do, has already been done. That is what i mean when thinking outside the box is seen like a requirement to even be looked at.
Where do we go from here? How do we not only look outside the box but allow the ideas from within the box to be improved. How do we create new ideas? We wait. We wait for someone to speak up, we take every idea with open arms and look at it not with criticism, but with the idea it could work. How does it affect the present? How about the future? Then we spread the word and see if more ideas were created from the initial ideas. That's the point of brain storming, we take one thing, and we work off of that.
[To be continued, feel free to leave ideas for me to explore]
