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> What are you good at?

> How good are you at it?


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A couple of strange questions perhaps, but it might be something we have to consider, as in many areas, we now compete further afield that locally. Some skills don't suit the digital world like plumbing or massage, others are made for it. But for most of us, some part of our life is lived locally, and some parts are locationless.

How this impacts on us is interesting in itself, but we can get into that some other time. What I was thinking about however, was how all of us have skill strengths and gaps that affect our experience and outcomes. In general, the more things we are good at, or if we are extremely good at one area, the more in demand we are. Our skill profile dictates quite a lot of our available opportunity.

The other day I was talking about the body being split into three core parts, the physical, the mental, and the emotional. The best version of ourselves is when all three of them are healthy, aligned, and working in unison. And when one is ill or unaligned, it will probably impact negatively on the other two.

> What is wealth without health?

It is better to be healthy and wealthy, than healthy and poor. And better to be wealthy and ill, than poor and ill. 

>But, it sucks to be ill and poor.

When we talk about class gaps in society, we generally look at it from the monetary perspective. But, there are many kinds of class systems, based on a whole range of attributes, like health, background, skin color, intelligence, and privilege. Lots of ways to compare and dissect ourselves, to be part of one group or another. What happens when a person has all the negative side?

> How disadvantaged are they?

For instance, I have disadvantages as a foreigner in Finland when it comes to my opportunity for work. There is likely still another disadvantage based on skin color. And, there is another one based on my health, language skills, education...

> The list goes on.

But, there are also advantages in those same areas, depending on situation. They might not get me a job in IT though.

However, I think that we are building even greater class gaps, because we are doing it at a more general level, with large pieces of the community being "disadvantaged" in so many of the areas simultaneously, with clustered problems. It is similar to the "comorbidity" factors around the Corona virus epidemic, where overwhelmingly, the people who died had preexisting conditions that made them more susceptible, like being severely overweight, or the condition of being old. These factors likely indicated other issues too, where a person who is overweight likely has one or more other factors that affect outcomes, and being old also comes saddles with contributing issues as well. 

> Illness doesn't live in a vacuum.

If you are ill with a flu, it is likely going to affect your abilities to move, think and of course how you feel. Once you get better, things start to function normally again. However, what we are doing to skill and social disorder levels, is creating illnesses that we don't get better from quickly, if at all, and they start to affect other areas of our lives, stacking and compounding against each other, killing our ability to be a "healthy member" of society. 

We often focus on the wealth gap, but knowledge gaps, skill gaps, intelligence gaps, health gaps, emotional gaps, social gaps, community gaps and all the other possible factors that impact on our personal lives, have very large implications for society. What is likely to happen is that these gaps will cluster, like cancer clusters around some kind of shared exposure. The gaps will become more prevalent in some groups more than others, and grow more gaps over time, reducing the opportunity to be healthy. 

And, while you might be luckily in the privileged group, you don't operate in a vacuum either. When society is unhealthy, it affects everyone within it, which is why those who can, are looking for ways to isolate themselves, before the contagion reaches them. Yet, as we know from pretty much every dystopian story ever told, there is no happy ending by trying to avoid the illness, as avoidance just prolongs the inevitability. 

>It is cure, or nothing. 

Health is wealth is a pithy saying without reflection, because we don't actually know what "healthy" means for an individual, let alone for a society. What we do know is, whatever we are doing now, isn't working, and doesn't look like it is suddenly going to start to work.

What's the cure?

Taraz
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