Kevin N. Murphy

Giving, beginning within the family and extending outward into the society, is the moral center of the system. It does not succeed by allowing the leading capitalists to revel in riches; if they hoard their wealth the system tends to fail. It succeeds by inducing the capitalist continually to give his wealth back to the system in the form of new gifts and investments.

The crucial capital of the system is not the physical accumulation of natural resources and machines, but the metaphysical capital of human life. The most essential capitalist act — the very paradigm of giving or investing without a predetermined outcome — is the bearing, raising and educating of children….Parents are the ultimate entrepreneurs, and, as with all entrepreneurs, the odds are against them. But all human progress — of businesses and families as well as societies — depends on an entrepreneurial willingness to defy the odds. It is in the nuclear family that the most crucial process of capitalist defiance and faith is centered.
— George Gilder, The Soul of Silicon, Forbes

We often divide our lives into separate compartments…the private and spiritual, the public and material. And this taken its toll on marriages and families.

George Gilder suggests that the heart of economic life is moral and spiritual and that this heart is developed first in the home. Do you agree? What happens to an economy when the moral and spiritual qualities are no longer well developed in the families?

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
— Proverbs 22:6