Market-centred Interaction
Basics
Prosperity implies increasing wealth, which depends on successful businesses and continuing investment built around an ever-greater variety of specialized products and services.
Everyone benefits from economic growth, but certain people are its immediate generators. If you listen and watch them carefully, you will see that tough moments in relationships lead to the affirmation: Business is business!
They also respect certain imperatives:
- Compete to make money
- Work hard
- Grasp opportunities
- Get good deals
- Go for short-term, certain results
- Use your talents and skills
- Learn through experience
- Support markets and free-enterprise
- Develop contacts and networks
- Live the good life
Think of individuals you know who obviously exemplify the category. In doing so, remember that it is the overall pattern that counts—not any particular interaction.
More…Review
- Is this vision of life too limited and too materialistic?
- Is it harmful to think that money makes the world go round?
- Are these values too disconnected from society’s urgent needs?
- Is it worth having a meritocracy? winners and losers? inequality?
The fact that such questions can even be posed supports the observation that there are people who seek benefits other than money and who are unsympathetic to commerce.
If money is the object, there are more expedient ways of getting it than hard work: e.g. demanding money with threats, or setting up a Ponzi scheme—methods copied by governments everywhere.
- Look now at being Power-centred.
Originally posted: July 2009
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