The "Invisible Hand" Was Not God´s Hand, Although When It Comes Down To It....

Avatar Bish • 2 days ago 'Invisible hand' a term coined by adam smith 1776 in the book wealth of nations. That term was expressing that business as an entity, has no use of virtue. The system of working for a living is natural. Working for a business is incorporating the working collective. The ability to harness a collective is how a business, city, state, country becomes powerful. Now even the education systems are being used to impose proprietary of knowledge. Likewise business offers a venue of circumventing responsibility without personal responsibility. That is how and why it can be used to exploit about every rule in the book. Avatar greenpeaceRdale1844coop Bisha • 2 days ago Fortunately, those were ideas by individuals, and can be simply adjusted and shifted despite the overwhelming and indoctrinating influence of the abusers of economic ideology. It is the intensity, material impact, reinforcing complex, and inertia impacting habituation and conditioning that increases the challenge. Thus, Robert Owen was sparked by contact with a Christian medical doctor working on occupational medicine and developed some pro-social ideas and practices. That happened as the Quaker-Friends anchored the T Clarkson-led abolition campaign in the UK and led it in the US North. By the 1840s and the success of the anti-slavery social movement, the pro-social co-op co-ownership biz model was developed by workingpeople at Rochdale, UK. The rise of Mondragon Co-op Corp industries in Spain starting in the 1950s anticipated developments in Social Europe, and the US, as the co-op biz model developed an international org in 1895, a US org in 1920, and a UN international forum in COPAC for co-op biz in 1970. • Edit • Reply • Share › Avatar Bishadi greenpeaceRdale1844coop • 2 days ago people created the commandments, and business codes. Big difference between the intentions of both. Invisible hand, is a metaphor for the entity. • Reply • Share › Avatar greenpeaceRdale1844coop Bish • 2 days ago The "invisible hand" was developed by Adam Smith in his 1759 book on Moral Sentiments about the public and social good resulting from selfish economic behavior by individuals. Undoubtedly, it recalled God to readers´ minds. As you point out, the "codes" of commandments in Judeo-Christianity had one purpose, moral conduct. Business in Christian society in the era of the British East India Co when the British gained knowledge of Portuguese riches in trading around 1600, began to link complex private business organizing and profiteering on a new scale. By 1670, the British began to benefit from their University-based scholarship with the likes of gunpowder weapons of the 1400s, DesCartes´ math, Newton´s physics, and Boyle´s chemistry, Harvey´s biology, and moral philosophy like Locke´s. The concepts of joint stock and limited liability, and developments like the Dutch´s Amsterdam stock exchange which followed the Dutch´s own East India Co. Intentions need to be made clear, and that is what Big Biz corp execs they have tried to hide mostly by intimidation and enchantment, and the paralysis of inequality in influence. It was thus that FDR´s accomplishments began to be overcome by Reagan´s pleasantries masking the vicious impacts of pro-rich, anti-social profiteering. • Edit • Reply • Share › Avatar Bish greenpeaceRdale1844coop • a day ago 'Invisible hand' was a metaphor for the business. It was a description. Again, a man created the words, terms and analogy, just like every religion ever written or described. The intentions of the commandments was to enable a mind to learn them, apply them and sustain them for the purpose of civil interactions among people. They are man made rules that even to this day, work quite naturally in civil society. • Reply • Share › − Avatar greenpeaceRdale1844coop Bisha • 3 minutes ago • edited You´re not actually getting the meaning of the "Invisible Hand" metaphor, since by "the business" you can only speak vaguely and unspecifically. As a "description," it needed to be weighed with the tools of empirical philosophy to be taken seriously in any way. It was, however, taken in relation to a discipline concerning the conduct of the rich, powerful, and influential. How would that impact the development of "economics" after all? Personally, I took the definition from one source, and it basically means that "a guiding influence or structural parameter will ensure that everything works for the best interests of everyone if they are self-interested businesspeople in free markets." It´s naive, and plays into the hands of the most powerful, influential, and talented. As for your attempt to equate that metaphor to religion, that´s the problem with not studying and reflecting sufficiently or humbly enough. Adam Smith´s ability to try philosophizing about economics using ethics and physics as his models around the 1770s was done within a very specfic context. It´s a context that has generated enough complexity in University-based society to allow secular materialist projects to advance enough to permit egotistical delusions of status and Civil Rights freedom to comment extremely unaccountably. Economics, like religion, is in fact referring to empirical phenomena of one type or another. It is clarity and precision with the love of knowledge and truth that has made Western civilization capable of advancing with such effectiveness in Jesus´ legacy of loving integrity. Ignoring that fact is its own human phenomenon in need of acknowledgement, description, and analysis. Indeed, religion is itself a fundamentally human behavior, although your ideological reductionism and oversimplification ignores basic issues. Your expression "man created" is fallacious in ignoring phenomena. The thrill for scientists has been differentiating their realm of knowledge from religion and often imprudently making the non-sequitor conclusion that all of religion is useless, malevolent, or a delusion. Science, i.e. scientific philosophy, is itself a "human creation," however, it is the result of Christians working with ancient Greek philosophy and eclectics in the study of natural phenomena. Thus, a basic dynamic of human activity reflects ideas and their referents. In fact, theology has been sustained in the humanities as an academic discipline, as is Comparative Religious Studies. Yet, the philosophy of religion, formerly known as metaphysics, is multidisciplinary. Comparative religious studies helps clarify how China´s and other prevailing systems developed until Western influences arrived, and can examine the high integrity nature of FDR´s US-UN human rights community interacts with the syncretic forms since then. Whether the specific subject is Confucius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Pantanjali, Jeremiah, or Socrates, there is a transcendental point of reference in some way indicating a Creator and Source. Socrates´ own career involved an apparent priestess named Diotima, not his wife Xanthippe, and his friend Chaerophon asking the Oracle at Delphi´s Temple of Apollo a question. The survival of ancient Greek philosophy and its transformation involved the Islamic use of Christian translators at the outset, and the establishment of the Spanish Reconquista Toledo Translator School by the French Benedictine Bishop Raymond. Christian legacy, in conjunction with monasticism, was very much conducted in relation to a transcendent and lawful God who was already considered all powerful in relation as Father to Jesus the Son. That very clear focus contrasted with such attitudes as Aristotle´s assertions that the Universe is eternal, so that there was no First Cause, and that objects cannot move in curved lines. "the commandments ... are man made rules that even to this day, work quite naturally in civil society." You seem a little unclear about how the United States of America has had subgroups since President Reagan and the GOP advocate for businesspeople corp execs and a pro-rich, profiteering ideology that was swallowed by the Dems. It has been causing, overtly or covertly, human rights and sustainability problems around the world that are already at extreme crisis levels and indicating catastrophically worsening trends. US mass murders are fairly well-known, not least of all, along with police brutality not least of all against Afro-Ams. You´re not able to be honest, and that comes from the intense pressure of corporate-consumer culture and other issues. That´s key because the solution requires understanding and action, as with the way Christians ended slavery, absolute monarchy, and established constitutional democracy, Civil Rights, social co-op biz, not for profits, and human rights. Science has studied meditation and prayer as basic practices of spirituality and religion. Social Scientific and humanities analysis addresses or provides the analytical skills to understand the various levels of coherence, correspondence to reality, and emergent properties that reflect the phenomena of religious traditions. Jesus legacy in University-based society with globalization has become central to understanding the role of his loving integrity in legitimating pluralism and spiritual-religious phenomena no less.