That would work for me. An element of evil exists in too many business decisions.
Christians must understand that it was always God’s intent for us to promote human flourishing through our work. This means teaching a new narrative around the purpose of work, wealth creation, and their God-ordained roles in bringing flourishing to God’s creation. Barnes favors an approach that integrates our faith and our work, rejecting the compartmentalization of our current culture, which dictates that work is only a means to an end.
The disingenuous term, fiscal conservative, translates:
I am globalist, elitist, and socialist. But I want all your money.
Our governmental and economic systems were designed by and for a morally upright people.
Virtuous Capitalism
That said, the system that affords the most self-determinism, liberty, and ability to benefit from your own efforts as an individual will always be preferable to any other.
The world moves forward on the creativity, efforts, and virtue of individuals, not by the achievements of the collective. The collective is almost always left behind.
This isn't about relative worth of people. Everyone is important and everyone matters. It's about allowing each of us as individuals to become our best and achieve our most. This is the best path to obtain the biggest contributions from all of us.
There is only one economic system that allows this. Capitalism. Whether good or bad things happen along the way is not a function of the economic system, but a function of the failings of individuals spiritually, morally, and ethically - as I think this author is saying. I agree entirely.
As a mirror of our current society, just over the past 2.5 years we've had a true coup attempt against a duly elected American President, the ‘buy your test scores and admission into the college of your choice’ scandal, the legislature of a large US state passing a law allowing infanticide, subversion of justice by political connections in the Hillary Clinton private server debacle, the Jussie Smollett case, cases of ‘youths’ beating defenseless older adults and the elderly, etc., etc. When these things are happening, a society has a very big problem with rot, and laws alone, or an economic system alone, won't be enough to fix it.
Not only is Virtuous Capitalism needed, but so is Virtuous Education.
Unbridled free capitalism good inside the USA but that freedom ends at the border.