Sublime

Enabling materially poor people to engage in work that pays a living wage is the most sustainable way for them to no longer be materially poor. Period.

While the learned debate, rational actors in the market practice a de facto gold standard.

In economic terms, healthy hierarchy means, for example, ensuring that the financial sector is in service to the productive economy, which in turn is in service to life.

blue-collar workers in North America are getting squeezed,

The capitalistic worldview adapted the “serve the State” mentality to fit a free-market economy. This is the mantra of “serve yourself.” The goal of this worldview is to get good grades, so you can get a scholarship at a good college, so you can get a good job, so you can make lots of money, be financially secure, have a retirement plan, move to Fl

In Bible times, the greatest material resources were locked up with the kings. But today, the greatest material resources—the money, the talent, the equipment, and the facilities—are locked up in the marketplace. This means that in most local churches, there’s a big gap between the vision for ministry and the financial resources available.

God makes it clear that Christians in the work world must go beyond dealing fairly in the marketplace and not cheating on our taxes. We are to also obey his command to “Love your neighbor as yourself” by focusing on the spiritual and physical needs of others. This is a call to Christians in the work world to make a difference rather than just a dol

The development of this economic system was no longer determined by the question: What is good for Man? but by the question: What is good for the growth of the system?