Here’s an exceptional survey
of why America’s (and the West’s) economy is floundering. And—is it any
surprise—it centres around a rejection of Judeo-Christian belief and more specifically
the Christian virtue of chastity.
Even if all the market reforms of the Washington think tanks, the Wall
Street Journal, and Forbes Magazine were enacted, we’d still need to
kiss the Great American Economy goodbye. Below the level of economic policy
lies a society that is producing fewer people capable of hard work, especially
married men with children. As the retreat from marriage continues apace, there
are fewer and fewer of these men, resulting in a slowly,
permanently decelerating economy.
When men get married, their sense of responsibility and drive to
provide gives them the incentive to work much harder. This translates into an
average 27-percent increase in their productivity and income. With the retreat
from marriage, instead of this “marriage premium,” we get more single men (who
work the least), more cohabiting men (who work less than married men), and more
divorced men (who fall between the singles and cohabiters).
All this is visible in the changing work patterns of
our country, resulting in real macro-economic consequences. Fifty years ago
family life and the economy were quite different.
Religion fosters a flourishing society and the bottom line
is:
Thus the core strategy for forming great workers for the economy is
growing intact married families who are united in worship through their
community of belief and send their children to schools that inculcate those
values and beliefs. Not only does that produce the greatest average human
capital for the marketplace; it also produces the best citizens for the polis and
the common good.
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