Friday, May 11, 2007

Social Justice through Knowledge

We have all heard the phrase, ‘knowledge is power’. Social Justice is always meant to me the distribution of wealth by taking from one group and giving to another as in taxing the rich and giving to the poor. Why not redefine it as taking the knowledge of the rich and giving that knowledge to the poor on how to use the knowledge to provide physical and financial health and wellness.

If there is a technology of wellness that allows one to understand the dynamics of wellness than those with that knowledge might pay less on health care by maintaining a lifestyle of better health and could be easily understood by everyone.

If there was a business that was totally free and you could not fail and if you participated in it you could change your financial wellness.

If there was a method that you could pay off a mortgage on property in 1/3 the time without increasing the total money being paid to the mortgage on a monthly basis this would allow the participant a way of saving 2/3’s the total cost of financing the mortgage and again improve the financial wellness of those participants.

So by having knowledge we can improve the financial wellness of the holders of the knowledge. In fact all of the above are real and with education would provide social justice by taking knowledge from one group and giving it to another. The actual knowledge will be shared in later articles.

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