Capitalism, A Love Story

What is capitalism?

This story was written with the assistance of an AI writing program.

Is capitalism about money? Greed? Or something different?

In its purest form, capitalism is none of these.

Although, in today’s society it certainly seems to be about greed and money — about putting as much of that money into your pocket as possible.

But that is an aberrant capitalism, it is capitalism corrupted into its most disgusting and least beneficial form.

This type of capitalism is immoral, disheartening and threatens the economic well-being of all those who live within its embraces.

We all see this all around us.

But this is not how capitalism was meant to be.

Capitalism is actually about service.

Capitalism is about serving your fellow traveler along this pathway we call “life.”

It’s about helping them — and each other — along this journey fraught with heartache, turmoil, disappointments and mundane mediocrity.

Capitalism is all about finding your “true self;” your “true calling,” and getting rewarded for it.

Capitalism is about helping others.

The more people you help, the more you get rewarded.

Your “true calling” was given to you by God.

It is a promise you made to God that you would serve your fellow man during your time here on Earth.

Capitalism is about doing the best you possibly can with those talents God gave you, to help out as many people as you possibly can.

God gave you those talents to help you follow your dream — your “true calling.”

In response, God promises you that you will be rewarded with prosperity.

This enters into the second area of capitalism; the second promise between you and God: You must use your prosperity responsibly.

As you serve others, as you serve well, as you help others out on this path called “life,” — you will prosper, more and more.

And then comes the question: What do you do with your prosperity?

This is what you do:

1. Tithe. Give back to God a tenth of all that He has given you. Find you favorite church, non-profit, or scholarship fund and give a tenth of what you have received to them. Or find a local charity, school or church to give to.
2. Serve. In addition to serving others through your work which flows from your “true calling,” you also should be paying off your debt in a timely manner.
3. Make amends. What if, at some point along your personal journey, you hurt someone, somehow? What if it was physically? What if it was emotionally? What if it was financially? What if it was in some other way? Make amends. The Bible says to repay them from your prosperity adding 20% to what you owe them, or to the damage you caused or the hurt and pain you induced.
4. Learn. Keep learning how better to serve. Keep learning how best to improve yourself. keep learning how to better connect with God. Keep learning how to better connect with others. The more people you connect with, the more people you can serve, and the better you can connect with them, the more you can serve that person. Keep learning how best to invest your prosperity that you can keep it growing so you will be able to help more and more people — and keep it away from those who would misuse it or abuse it or use it for purposes with which you disagree. Pay the taxes you owe, but never pay more. Reduce your tax exposure, and thus your tax liability by learning how to serve others more.
5. Acquire wisdom. Wisdom is the result of experience well-learned. In this path of life, experience is often hard-learned, and the result of bad experiences. “Bad” experiences are those that cause you pain or distress or that set you back financially. Or, they are those experiences in which the actions or decisions you have made have caused those reactions or results to others. Your best learning — and learning based on experience is called wisdom — comes from when you make mistakes or from when you fail at something. When you are pushing the boundaries of your knowledge, when you are trying to learn something new, when you are attempting to do what you have not done before, you are going to make mistakes, you are going to fail. This is often viewed as a “bad” experience. But you can choose to look at this as “good.” Look at each “bad” experience, each failure, every mistake, as “good,” because each one of these “bad” experiences you have, if you learn from it, is just another rung on the ladder that helps you climb from where you now to where you want to go and to whom you want to be.

Capitalism is bad when it is misused, abused and distorted into its basest of forms.

Capitalism is good when it is used as God intended; as the fulfillment of a promise between you and God to serve others as you and God had planned all along.