This Tuesday on July 7th, 2020 we kick off Season 3 of The Great Reset by introducing oikotics, a novel discipline that unifies economics, politics, psychology & religion.

Question: What is the most useful and healthy way to think about money?

Perspective: Money is the most decentralized mechanism yet for a society to distribute Resources, Status and Relationships. As such, it complements — and competes with! — family, religion, and the state.

A great glory of Western civilization has been how seriously it has sustained a dialogue around these issues, albeit over different timescales:

• Worship: ~3,000+ years
• Politics: ~2,400 years
• Economics: ~250 years
• Psychology: ~100 years

It’s greatest shame is perhaps that it has never truly reconciled them. This is also our opportunity!

I propose a new cross-cutting discipline called oikotics focused on “the flourishing of households,” especially families. The goal is to design governance, markets, and churches that support families in ways that enable children to flourish; as opposed to treating families as an obstacle, the way Plato and his descendants did (and do).

Verses

You cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 6:24

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. 

1 Timothy 6:10

“The worker deserves his wages.”

1 Timothy 5:18

“The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.

Acts 2:45

The believer who is poor still has reasons to boast, for he has been placed on high. But those who are rich should boast in how God has brought them low and humbled them, for all their earthly glory will one day fade away like a wildflower in the meadow.

James 1:9-10

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