The wilderness is known as an economy. Capitalism is what we call the ever present chaos; the physics of how money flows through an economy when unmanaged.

Flowing money is like water. It is nourishing and refreshing when it trickles, and incredibly powerful and destructive when it gathers.

Over time, we learned how to manage water to make it trickle far and wide, or focus it’s collected energy for our own purposes; both creative and destructive.

The crises we face today is of perspective. One perspective is that we should micromanage the overall flow of money, thus inherently managing the individuals who use the money, and the other perspective is that we should only manage ourselves within the economy where money flows freely, creating a “survival of the fittest” scenario. Unfortunately, just like water in a natural ecosystem, money flowing through economies is much more complicated.

In every environment people must learn to anticipate and adapt to how free flowing water effects them and their environment. To mitigate the damage, and to optimize possible advantages, people must develop management strategies that recognizes where free flowing water is beneficial and where it is not, then divert the destructive energy towards creativity. The optimal management strategies for water are unique to each landscape, and unique cultures have evolved from those strategies.

With money, if we micromanage too much we limit ourselves by dampening our creative potential. If we are too independent, we also limit ourselves as we spend too much time and energy protecting ourselves from people who are intent on the same thing. Then, more and more of our energy and resources are channeled into displays of power and force. There is an optimal balance, but that balance is unique to each culture in time and space.

In this modern technical globalized world, companies and corporations are the equivalent to communities in the wilderness. Some are small like villages, and others are large like cities. The only difference is that these new economic communities are not defined by geography. Only by shared intent and financial collaboration.

A corporation’s identity and character is defined by the employees that comprise it. The intent of a corporation does not need to be money. The shared intent of the people that make up a company can be to simply survive.

To survive and concur the chaos of the wilderness, and of capitalism, everyone needs to be a member of a community that they feel shares their intent. Whether that is to join and established community, or to start a new one. Perhaps starting with incorporating the extended family only to protect assets and members.