The Purpose of Life

The purpose of Life is not necessarily or only work. The purpose of Life is….a positive and constructive purpose whatever that may be to the individual.  Thus the overweening importance of employment as a purpose fawned over by politicians and economists, despite the fact that employment is rapidly becoming much harder to find due to innovation and artificial intelligence, is economically and philosophically flawed. “Man does not live by bread alone.”

And there is another reason why focusing only on employment is wrong. If the rate of flow of total costs/prices routinely and in the unfettered operation of the economy exceeds the rate of flow of total individual incomes…..then the system…no matter how much employment there is….cannot possibly be stable, and over time must and will collapse. Employment obviously has a long way to go yet, but unless you integrate a costless policy of monetary Gifting that goes first and directly to the individual instead of into the system itself…you’re only palliating the problem and putting undue stress on the system and the individual. 

We are not homo economicus. We are homo sapiens, i.e. wise and discerning man. Let us live up to our species designation and let us speak this truth and the following demand to our financial, political and economic elites:

“Let us be free in a truly free and free flowing system where monetary grace as in the free gift is policy and reflects the ultimate purpose of Life….building a graciously free society where the experience and practice of grace, which is Love in action, is more prevalent and more naturally and easily expressed.”

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