Saturday, July 22, 2006

The Economic Expression of Love

The economy represents, for workers and good folk, a desire to do good. A pure form of this expression is working as public service. Another good form is working to earn money to pay for the needs of a family and others. Another is to pay for the self to not be a burden on others' work and fortunes. These are good goals and their expressions will most likely be good to society, and the desire for them honors God.

This desire makes the economy. We need to rearrange the way we express this desire from economic methods to functional methods. For example, while still desiring to perform public service and help support the needs of others, I should seek to build a machine that will split water into hydrogen. Procuring this hydrogen gas to have it perform the work that I might personally do is good, and leaves me able to do other things, such as study medicine or programming, skills that hydrogen cannot do, but which also serve society and others.

No comments: