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By Nneka Okumazie
Making money is not making progress, never has, regardless of what is generally accepted, and making money will unlikely ever mean making progress.
Many often defend capitalism by saying it gave you that, or it did this, but capitalism actually plays last in what it takes to make progress in any civilization.
Human, purpose, time/environment, and resources are the major composition of how progress is made.
For humans, aside from those who would be required to do the end work – like for great shapes or great walls, the level of intelligence for any human, as well as what the individual works on, may result in what would bring progress.
Also, no matter the level of human intelligence, the purpose that a country or people want to achieve can also bring about progress.
There were times in history where it was mostly architecture they focused on, and they made it. There were other times for cavalry, infantry, as well as new kinds of training that lead to the progress they purposed.
Time too matters as something of some importance would have been impossible at certain times. Also, environment matters, as the traits of the people, or their collective nurture, operational values or what they prioritize mean much in how they make progress.
The last is resources, which may seem to be money, but resources can be advantageous in a particular ore, or something else, resulting in things to build at home or to send elsewhere and use to funnel progress. Resources can be capital, but not that determinative in what really true progress means.
There has been capitalism at every time and every place that a currency or standard form of exchange existed. Capitalism or free market became the locution a few centuries back, but currencism had always been even if economies were labelled command, or that it was strictly controlled.
If there is currency, it is capitalism. A recent couple of decades opened more financial products but capitalism has always existed wherever currency is.
The best thing capitalism does for most people is the credential it provides: have it, show and get accepted.
The formula is so simple that it is not possible to think that the ability for things to go in a way to have access to it, means that person is actually better than others.
Capital currents, which is own and throw, is not progress but mostly participation ID.
In or out of it does not mean a drop from whatever progress really means.
There are many countries that have no business with total capitalism in their economies.
Not because they can survive without currency, but because their purpose end with participative ranking in capitalism.
They possess nothing else that would mean progress, so they and their people remain down, heading nowhere.
They didn’t understand that success in capitalism means an opportunity to aid progress and development, instead, to them, it is to push up their capitalistic participation profile.
What does it mean to earn really low, with hard struggles, and to do just that every day to feed?
If some offspring are managed to get what should be a valuable certificate – is that education to participate in capitalism, or to make progress?
No progress is getting made, and fewer spaces for participation, so many are capitalistic outcasts.
This has made some people engineer crime in the line of demand as the only thing they can offer to capitalism.
And for these people, they forget that comfort is nothing, and it is not worth crime, cruelty or corruption to get it.
There is no progress in comfort, though many use it to signal importance, comfort is far worthless than making money.
Capitalism is such a bad lie, that those who live to judge by it, already threw away whatever it means to be alive.
Some would be ready for anything so long they know they would participate in capitalism.
For many of those who have capitalism and class with it, they should see that its materials are already on fire, and progress is never ever with them.
Capitalism is too safe, they have what would hardly make them risk death or great disease for anything of lasting progress.
They have not found what matters, they have found what falters.
[Revelation 3:17, Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:]
