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For me social justice means that we all, all world citizens, feel it's our duty to ensure
that every human being on this planet can live her or his life in full and in dignity.
As you know, that is not the case today: a third of the world population struggles everyday
for the most basic things like getting a meal on the table for the family, having a roof,
having access to clean water, being able to afford health care when needed. So Social
Justice is the concept that every world citizen feels that obligation, and the social floor
explains to all of us, it educates all of us that this is an absolute minimum that we
have to ensure for everybody. It's not yet social justice because this is about the minimum
floor, but talking about these issues might help in what is already a sort of emerging
global consciousness. That in our very affluent world it's simply immoral to let poverty
go on the way it does and have so many of our fellow human beings living in such miserable
circumstances. Now again, the social floor is just a first step. But the concept allows
building on that, towards a world where there's more fairness and less inequality.