On a simply complex level: Money=Human Work

We receive money in proportion to how we make life easier for other human beings. There are too parts to the equation for Work.

Work: Work=Effort*Distance.

Effort*Distance is also a ratio.

That ratio is equal to the efficiency of a person’s work.

In your daily life do you not try to make it easier? Every person works and gets better, or more efficient, at the task that they choose to undertake. Basically, human beings are steadily trying to make life easier. This has gone on through out history. In general we call this process of making things easier progress.

If you look at the governmental structures during times of the most progress you find that they are free market and democracy, or at the very least moving towards either. Conversely, the times where there is the least progress are just after the collapse of such establishments (ex. the dark ages). Why?

During free market times some people/organizations become highly efficient at making money. After working hard these people had an extreme concentration of wealth; enough to change the governments to fit their needs.

Here is why democracy is essential and mostly free markets are essential. If people are not given the illusion of freedom then they lose efficiency in their work. Essentially, any nation, that cannot motivate it’s workers with the idea that they can make life easier, will become extremely in-efficient and fail. Human beings are motivated by the idea that life will be easier tomorrow if I work hard now. That idea is called hope.

This is the reason why communism has failed. In communism, there is no hope that tomorrow will be easier. There is only the reality that it will be the same. Every day, the same.

McCandless (Into the Wild, Krakauer) was right that what excites a person is a changing horizon; what he missed was that the horizon doesn’t literally need to change. Risks are taken everyday, without the use of a canoe and the Colorado River. In businesses and in ordinary, seeming, life. That is, as long as there is hope for betterment.

That doesn’t mean that everyone is motivated by hope of betterment. Some people, like McCandless, reject that life for one reason or another. You can live like he did, essentially in the same way human beings have for two million years; only keeping what they need; having an efficiency just over one.

McCandless died at age 23. That’s an important bit.

Anyway, at this time our nation is attempting reform, a little, by regulating our economy to stop corporations from influencing our government as much. That way the average citizen feels that they can do something. President Obama was elected overwhelmingly because of the hope that tomorrow will be better; safer, more fun, or more delicious etc.

Whether or not, regulation is successful and gives us our government back, I don’t know. Our government was never designed to represent the three hundred million people it does. We’ve never been democratic, and not truly a representative country. Our modified republic has been changing; incorporating parts of socialism, and fascism/corporatism along the way. Our government is changing every time it meets. Luckily, it has a strong foundation, with only a few modifications.