How Market Societies Condition Our Minds and Hearts
Channel: Asad Zaman
Date: 2023-03-20

{writeup: bit.ly/AZnaie46} Sec 4.6 of A New Approach to Islamic Economics explains how living in a market society conditions our thoughts and feelings. The creation of a labor market, required by capitalism, teaches to think that our lives are for sale to the highest bidder, and that the value of our is the amount of money it can fetch on the market. This is opposed to the truth that our lives are infinitely precious. Treating land as a commodity replaces our symbiotic relationship with our environment and habitat with an exploitative one. The use of money and market transaction replaces trust, exchange, and gifts, and replaces social relationships by detached and impersonal transactional relationships. To learn to be human beings, instead of human resources, we need to liberate ourselves from this conditioning created by market societies.