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When we reflect on the original concept of the so called free
market capitalist system, as initiated by early economic
philosophers such as Adam Smith, we see that the original
intent of a "market" was based around real, tangible, life
supporting goods for trade. Adam Smith never fathomed that
the most profitable economic sector on the planet would
eventually be in the arena of financial trading or so called
investment, where money itself is simply gained by the
movement of other money in an arbitrary game which holds
zero productive merit to society. Yet regardless of Smith's
intent, the door for such seemingly anomalous advents was
left wide open by one fundamental tenant of this theory;
money is treated as a commodity in and of itself. Today in
every economy of the world, regardless of the social system
they claim, money is pursued for the sake of money and
nothing else. The underlying idea which was mysteriously
qualified by Adam Smith with his religious declaration

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of the "invisible hand", is that
the narrow self-interested
pursuit of this fictional
commodity will somehow
magically manifest human and
social well being and progress.
The reality is that the
monetary incentive interest, or
what some have termed the
"money sequence of value",
has now completely decoupled
from the foundational life
interest, which could be
termed the "life sequence of
value".

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