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This profit was created, and therefore represents real profit. There was more produced by the economy, than what went into the production. Therefore, there was wealth left over to uplift the status of civilization. Here, profit was not realized as loot stolen from others as is common under the oligarchic model. By the means of created profit, the whole of society began to enjoy a freer life. This represents a moral base for economy. The created profit, thus, always invalidates the so-called profit of oligarchic feudalism, derived from slavery, or 'trading,' or in later centuries derived from 'banking' operations, all of which are fundamentally immoral, being destructive rather than uplifting. This difference separates immoral systems from moral systems of economy.
However, another factor comes into play here as we raise the moral domain as defined in the third row of the matrix, to the third dimension. This factor is a gate, which, according to the definition by Mary Baker Eddy, "binds human society into solemn union." Indeed, the application of the human intellect for the profit of civilization through scientific and technological development binds humanity into solemn union. The third row that is raised into the third dimension by the gate, represents Christianity, as defined earlier. What binds human society into solemn union is the achievement of the spiritual power of humanity to subdue the earth and to replenish it with life, light, and manifests of progress. What binds human society into solemn union is its Renaissance of spiritual, cultural, scientific, and technological unfolding - the moral platform for advancing civilization that unites all humanity.
All this points to the fact that real profit - the creation of wealth in real terms which provides useful resources for living - is inherently connected with a scientifically perceived identity of man. Its background was the perception that man is created in the image of God, the creator.
Man's perceived identity can be progressive, reflecting the completeness of man in spiritual terms for the creation of the required resources for living. Or public opinion can be shaped to accept the fundamental worthlessness of man and the virtues of slavery based trade as a means for profiting a nation. Both dimensions can be achieved.
The emergence of the scientific and industrial revolution, obviously, posed a great threat to the oligarchic empires of feudalism and slavery. For this reason three world wars were ignited by the oligarchy to counter the threat. Two of the wars succeeded, the third one (the Cold War) didn't. Still, in spite of the wars and its human catastrophes, the march of scientific and technological progress continued. Consequently, a new weapon was developed and deployed. For this weapon to succeed, public opinion was once again reshaped to prepare the ground for its acceptance. The weapon was the global liberalization of financial trading. A global financial deregulation was pushed, together with a gradual imposition of the free trade weapon. Now, with protective controls out of the way, the relocation of wealth was once again paraded as a producer of real profit, as it had been pushed in ages past. Sadly, the scheme worked extremely well. No profit, in any real sense was created by it, while the wholesale relocation of wealth created a global economic destruction by which the oligarchy achieved what it had failed to achieve through the course of three world wars. Within a few decades from the beginning of this final assault, the economies of the nations of the world were in shambles, their governments and people were drowning in debt which forced them to scale down their thrust in education, science, technologies, and culture on which human civilization depends. Most of all, by this deep hitting attack, the spiritual image of man, as a creator, became tarnished and invalidated. With the creation of real profit thus halted, on which civilization has been founded, civilization itself has been put in danger of disintegrating. The most severe destruction, however, has been achieved in the agricultural arena, through financial austerity measures that are unfolding into new cycles of starvation and starvation related deaths and diseases.
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