The Econosphere

7. Ten Ways to Maximize Wealth and Happiness for Yourself and Everyone Else

We are a part of an immense, sustainable social ecosystem that provides us all the incentives we need to best utilize our single, important raw material: Our own inborn potential and ability. We deplete this raw material over the course of our lives for the betterment of ourselves and those for whom we care, during which time we produce the goods and services that better all mankind. In the same way that our physical environment provides food, air, water, warmth, and more for an array of living organisms so that it is a self-sustaining system, our social ecosystem, our economy, is the mostly invisible counterpart to the physical environment providing the incentives ...