Me: One of the major aspects of grace is balance, balance imbued in whatever activity or sentiment that is, and I strongly suggest that will be both its ultimate and short term effects for the vast majority of individuals. Oh, sure you’ll inevitably have the anecdotal profligate and errant behavior of some. Everyone is in process morally and spiritually, almost no one here doesn’t recognize this. Social Credit is the economic policies of macro-economic balance and the philosophy of balance. Those who contemplate grace contemplate balance in everything….or should, especially if they are social crediters.
I absolutely expect an increase in consumption at first if Social Credit were implemented. It only makes sense, but medium to long term the balance that is rationality will undoubtedly deal with over consumption with innovation and survival behavior….much more quickly and effectively than in a culture of monetary scarcity, cyclical austerity and the constant barrage of advertising.
And even guys like me who think it’s best to integrate both spiritual and temporal reality and who advocate a truly abundant dividend and high discount percentage because it will continuously downsize the inevitably problematic business model of finance instead of futilely trying to match its power and corrupting effects with a mere statistical equilibrium of costs and prices, even we know that grace must infiltrate and transform all of Man’s systems and encourage cooperation between the clergy, the helping professions and government in helping the individual become more aware of the multitude of positive and constructive purposes available to them in addition to employment. Instead of “The Great Society” let us have “The Wise and Gracious Society”. What we need is a model for Wisdom and Grace instead of a model for homo economicus.
GM:Further to address the insupportable and unsupported notion that people consume chiefly in order to meet basic needs, and that once these basic needs are met, they will be satisfied:
Schor pursues the theme of consumption and lifestyle in The Overspent American (1998). She follows Elias’ and Bourdieu in positing that people strive to compete over status goods. These goods help define peoples’ identities and signal to others, their social status. She uses survey data to show how the process of keeping up with others is an arms race where upping the spending ante, forces other to follow. She views the formation of consumer society as at least partially the result of corporations taking advantage of people’s tendencies to consume more and more in order to display their social status. Schor’s version of lifestyle and consumption focuses on how individuals get caught up in status contests and will go into debt to continue to try and keep up.
Me: That’s orthodox economic theorizing….looking at its not very graciously balanced effects. Social Credit’s policies and philosophy are not economically orthodox.
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