Sunday, August 25, 2019

The sacralization of evolution, not wealth, may come in the future


I have no doubt that the profit motive and free enterprise have led to many great things in the world, but I also have no doubt that the profit motive, or the intense and selfish desire to create wealth, as affirmed by libertarian economists like Milton Friedman, should not be the highest or only value of free enterprise and business.

The material evolution to ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood should be the highest value of our culture and civilization. This doesn't necessarily suggest theocracy, but the profit motive and the free enterprise system should be grounded in the highest value of the material evolution of life.

We are obviously a long way from this value system, but populism and economic nationalism are at least reluctantly beginning to wake business people up to the idea that the profit motive is not the highest value to live by. Globalism has done more damage than good in the world. The sacralization of evolution, not wealth, may come in the future.

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