As an economist (and there is only one kind of economist in contemporary society, the microeconomics-based one), I understand that markets work under certain assumptions that are oftentimes met, if only in the long run. I also understand and agree with the notion that people behave with the purpose of maximizing their utility, that is, of maximizing the utility they gain from things (goods, services, relationships of any sort). This means, people seek to make a use of what they consume and produce.
Furthermore, this notion, that of the homo-economicus, is not contraire but consistent with a Christian life. When we seek to obtain things to make use of them, we are considering things as what they really are: means to attain a purpose. In a Christian life this idea entails: things are means to get to Heaven and to praise the Lord, Jesus Christ.
We buy a bible not for the bible itself, but for the word in it, in fact, the Word in it. We work to speak and develop a language to communicate the grace of God, not for the language itself. The only purpose we can seek for itself is God because He is the origin of all causes, He is the origin of creation.
We should, we ought to be attached to things as much as they are facilitators of our holiness. Their obtention and accumulation, as well as the things themselves do not take our peace away when we see them in their true light, that of means that have a purpose because we love the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
In Christ,
Through Mary,
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