The problem is not difficult to recognize or observe. A family is both a consumer and an input in the production process. Without proper nurturing, both consumption and production are affected. I hold that economic progress, in the sense I have put it, is antagonistic to real progress. Hence, the ancient ideal has been the limitation of activities promoting wealth.
Real progress relates to the progress of the soul force for which moral laws are essential.
Love is the glue that holds the world together and makes economies productive of real affluence. This is also the basic objective of Gandhian economics. All these concepts have ethical connotations, are highly interrelated and express real important phenomena. It is not our objective to expound these here. These have been articulated elsewhere.