Fellow Economic Feeling
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The creation of nominal value is the start of organized economic activity which is only made possible because of relationality.
Relationality is each person accepting a relation with others.
This comes from fellow-feeling.
Without fellow-feeling to Person X, you would not want to be associated with him. You would say: “I’d rather be caught dead than be seen with him,”
Fellow Economic Feeling or Common Economic Interest
This fellow-feeling is called:
- “group feeling” in Supersociology
- “common economic interest” in Supereconomics
This feeling or interest separates us from savages or animals that simply steal from other savages or animals.
- This is because they have no fellow feeling with them.
But a civilized species has more fellow-feeling thanks to the Positive Force which unites entities.
It is the Positive Force that upgrades:
- savages into barbarians
- barbarians into civilized people
- civilized people into advanced people
This drives our heart to give back something for what we got since the Positive Force makes us feel that the other person has needs too.
Selfish Interest Versus Common Interest
The main enemy of the Common Interest is Selfish Interest which comes from the Negative Force.
This selfisness is enshrined in Economics, making it a dismal science.
Supply and demand, which science says should be brought to bear on him, have an up-hill task with such a man. The sun is free. Rich soil, in those unpeopled regions, is almost free. These are his supply. He works 30 minutes a day to produce produce pumpkin to match his “demand.” He thus quickly matches supply and demand [and stops working].
Carlyle
In contrast, Supereconomics enshrines the common interest that is based on personal dharma or interest:
Man must always depend on others. He will likely get help more successfully if he can use their self-love to his favour, instead of their benevolence. He must show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires. Whoever offers a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this.
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations, Book 1, Chapter 2
We use the word “personal” instead of “self” in order to point to the personality structure instead of the simple identity implied by the word ‘self’.
Recall that:
- personality is the combination of the physical mind, lower mind, and higher mind
- personality structure arises from the accumulated beliefs imposed and samskaras gained. This can be seen as a reality-filter.