Offsite Post: ‘The Moloch Economy’

 

The Louisiana Association of Business & Industry (LABI) has released their manifesto on how to improve the economy and overall quality of life in Louisiana – LA23.  They summarize their key goals, of which there are four (located on p. 5):

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION

Enhance efforts to find and develop talent by expanding work-ready skills, providing more training for in-demand occupations, and increasing the number of Louisianans in the labor force.

TAX & BUSINESS CLIMATE

Improve tax policies and the business climate, and position Louisiana in the top tier of states on national rankings.

SAFETY & RESILIENCY

Improve safety and resilience by reducing crime while improving health and wellness.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Improve economic development outcomes through greater alignment, enhanced tools, and more support for innovation and entrepreneurship.

LABI deserves some credit for proposing items that don’t normally get much attention, such as incentivizing adequate housing construction to meet current demand, offering government grants to help current State citizens buy a home, and attention to the vitality of rural areas.

But at the same time, there is a lot missing.  Where is religion/culture in all of this?  Where is history?  And the higher goals of education beyond job preparation (i.e., initiating the current generation into the long, unbroken river of history, culture, and traditions of their forebears)?

The Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ says that man shall not live by bread alone (St Matthew’s Gospel 4:4).  LABI seems to suggest that we shall.

Those might seem like unfair questions to be asking of a business association, but they are not.  Throughout history, it has been the wealthy class of men and women who have built churches and monasteries, patronized the arts, and so forth.  Business owners in Louisiana occupy precisely this position of the wealthiest and most influential people in the State.  Because of this, in addition to their advocacy of business interests, it is also their duty to build up the culture as well.

But myopic attention to economic concerns leads inexorably to cultural decline.  Connor Tomlinson, writing at The European Conservative, observes,

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The rest is at https://identitydixie.com/2024/02/27/the-moloch-economy/.

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