Personal Topic (1)

Marketplace
October 16th, 2017
SArah Clark
Who likes to save money? Going once going twice, everybody likes to save money.  The marketplace can be a crazy place.  Ladies in Haiti can break coconuts in right in your face to proof their product worth or dealers will give under the table deals based on the asymmetric customer information they have.  The sellers can treat their customers as a “means to an end” opposed to an ends to mean.  This is counter of what is thought to be ethical by Kant, the deontologist founder.  Some paramount traits of the marketplace are self interest, anxiety and manipulation. Boltman says “humans gain security in their manipulation of the world around them.”  When we know how to control the market, we feel powerful and knowledgeable.  The rich young ruler in the gospel was knocked off his high horse when the Lord asked him to give up his spoils from manipulating the marketplace well.  This invitation of becoming a slave to righteousness opposed to a slave of the market was hard to accept.  In fact, “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” (NIV, Matthew 19:24).  While the market place is how our economy works, it can be the most threatening whirlwind cycles to get involved in.  We must rely on the Lord's provision rather than our skill of manipulation.  Who wants to eternal life? Going once going twice, everyone wants eternal life.  So, everyone needs to be wary of what they are following.  

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