Figure C1e Financial freedom, a tool supporting harmony in the GT environment
Molière
The play by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Known as Molière, 1622-1673
(Taken from Google, Book Reports, Short book summary, 2022)
Title of the play: The Miser
Early in the play, we meet a cheap older man named Harpagon, whose only concern in life is his cash. He's so obsessed with money that he nearly tries to strip search everyone who goes in and out of his house.
We also find out that ol' Harpagon has buried a small box filled with a lot of money (10,000 French crowns, which is a ton in the 17th century) in his backyard that he's paranoid about someone stealing. At this point, Harpagon sounds like a dog with a favorite juicy bone.
Meanwhile, it looks like Harpagon's son Cléante and daughter Élise have both fallen in love. But Harpagon wants Cléante's lover Mariane for himself and wants Élise to marry a wealthy older man named Anselme.
Cléante and Élise hatch a plot to make Harpagon give up his designs so they can finally be happy. Harpagon isn't so easily fooled, though. He soon figures out Cléante's scheme and threatens to disown the boy for daring to speak against him. Excellent parenting, Mr. Harpagon.
In the play's final act, Cléante's valet—named La Fléche—digs up Harpagon's backyard treasure and makes off with it. Harpagon gets excited and calls the police. He demands that the culprit be found and hanged because he's level-headed like that.
Cléante, however, assures Harpagon that he'll get his money back as soon as he agrees to let Cléante marry Mariane and to allow Élise to marry her lover Valère.
Harpagon only decides after finding out that the man he wants Élise to marry—Anselme—is the long-lost father of Valère and Mariane. How convenient! What's more important, though, is that Anselme is prepared to pay Harpagon a tidy sum to make the older man go away and stay out of everyone else's business.
At the end of the play, the lovers go off to get married. And live happily ever after while Harpagon is left to grow old with his money. There's no Ebenezer Scrooge moment in this play. Harpagon hasn't changed at all, and he only has his moneybags to keep him warm at night.
Early in the play, we meet a cheap older man named Harpagon, whose only concern in life is his cash. He's so obsessed with money that he nearly tries to strip search everyone who goes in and out of his house.
We also find out that ol' Harpagon has buried a small box filled with a lot of money (10,000 French crowns, which is a ton in the 17th century) in his backyard that he's paranoid about someone stealing. At this point, Harpagon sounds like a dog with a favorite juicy bone.
Honoré de Balzac
The play by Honore de Balzac (1799–1850)
(Taken from Google, Shmoop, we make learning easier, 2022
Title of the play: Father Goriot
Honore de Balzac came to the idea to write a series of a novel about the time and place he lived in and to combine them all under the name "The Human Comedy." He wanted to cover all the essential subjects from the French society to which he belonged. "Father Goriot" is one of the most famous novels in "The Human Comedy."
This novel is in part called "Scenes from Parisian Life," and its theme perfectly belongs to this region. It's a novel about money, love, success, aristocracy, and the desire to stand out.
Balzac lived in France during political turbulence and lifestyle mixing of different classes. It was a time when social injustice was the biggest evil against which the lower classes couldn't fight. Hunger and poverty ruled most of the country, while the esteemed social classes enjoyed balls, socializing, and all other perks of an aristocratic lifestyle.
Balzac combined those motives into different elements of those days' society by describing a small Mansion Vaquer whose owner was widower Vaquer. People who lived in the mansion had reasons to be there, and the common cause was the money they owned and made.
The villa is also socially structured, and people get the room they can afford. Balzac did that structure so he could present the social scale. Those who had more money had better rooms, and those who didn't have much of it had to take what they got.
The novel's theme is life in Paris, which is shown in numerous events. The narrator is unknown, objective, and omniscient. It is possible to see some of Balzac's thoughts in the novel. The main problem is shown through a father's love for his daughters, that had no limits.
Other analyzed problems are the fight for survival in a big city, longing for success and reputation, frauds, lies, and betrayals as the basic human foundation that allow us to survive. All of these motives can be found in the lives of Goriot and his daughters, Eugene Rastignac, Vautrin, and other tenants of the mansion.
This work was written during Realism, and it became one of its most significant representatives in France and worldwide. Balzac painted a picture of the French society that doesn't exist today, but it's still pretty much alive in his works because of the detailed descriptions of everyday life.
Every part of society, people's opinions about the world, the living space, the desire for certain things, and love are so perfectly described that we can feel the power of that world. Cold colors are present because they help to explain the poverty atmosphere.
Balzac put a part of himself into his work by commenting on the youth's potential to succeed. Success makes people do all sorts of things without always getting the result. Balzac stated his subjective and objective opinion about society and its individuals, giving us an insight into the mentalities of the citizens and the artist himself.
Balzac's stance is evident in everything because he knew what it's like to be poor and fight for your life, and he also had a vast knowledge about the aristocracy's nature because he had a few chances to spend time with them.
Figure C1e advocates the idea of the Financial Freedom (FF) for the Harmony in the Great Triad (GT) environment. The FF's purpose in the sense of the GT functions indicates a feasible solution without any social ingredients (like any -isms of the two last centuries). Financial freedom is nothing special, no appendix to running present economic systems. The FF is understood here as one of many new myths that disrupt the rapid development of technology.
Financial flows (similarly flows of water, electricity, or information) have their own rules; as people need access to water, electricity, or information, they likewise need access to financial flows (in this case, only to electronic money). The present population is a structural system and has got limits. Without the water, no city survives; without electricity, there will be no products and no market, and without order in information, there will be no development and safe life in the GT environment.
Today the financial flows are broken down into items that follow materials, products, and services business flows. It creates a fuzzy data lake with a broad spectrum of different shadow structures full of holes, low transparency, and an enormous potential for corruption growth.
Such a data lake lacks the composition (texture) of the financial flows. Its definitions and procedures do not sufficiently support the scaling and development of the needed algorithms for running digitalization on any level of organizations and projects worldwide.
It underlines the competence for discussing the reason and procedures of the Global Digital Transformation (GDT). FINtech solves this problem marginally, and "CRYPTOtech" remains on illegible grounds. Therefore works on the SPC Concept can continue its research by relying on the feasibility of the Top Task described in Figures C1c. 1, 2, 3, and 4.
It's not easy, and it's a long story. For example, so that the FF's idea would still live and the search for ways to do it would not stop, we have to try it again and again. Below is an example from Poster C presented at Energy Smart Mission (ESM) the Philippines, Manila, 2016, which says.
Financial freedom is not about how much money a person has (earns, inherits, or otherwise obtains) or how much he/she spends (or invests). Financial freedom solves access to financial flows. It is an excellent opportunity for anyone to earn and use (spend or invest) money and not conflict with rules (laws) set by the society in which he/she lives.
However, financial flows must be strong enough (in quantity) to create a realistic condition for new quality. The new priorities for money spendings and investing.
For discussion, defense, and finding a way, I used a simple dialectical diagram, Bipolarity, which examines subjects with the help of two polarities connected into one whole. Figure C1e displays two polarities and two contradictions of one Bipolarity.
The first polarity (a, b) presents the relationship between Financial Freedom (b) and money flows (c). For example, in this sense: how strong profit an entrepreneur or organization must have so that it can allow work only three days per week.
The second polarity (d, c) illustrates the relationship between Quality of Life (d) and Quantity of Money (d). For example, in this sense: how strong a fiscal budget a society must have to allow free access to healthcare services for all.
Bipolarity offers two types of contradiction in terms, (b-c) and (a-d). It is better to go deep enough in our own thinking to understand these contradictions. We should shift our thinking from a vision (To-Be) to levels with the real-time positions built on our own genesis (e.g. how the relationship between the Human has grown up and his/her invention-money. Two looks behind are presented.
The first one describes the relation between “Financial Freedom and Quantity of Money” (b-c). It is illustrated, for example, in the novel “Miser,” written by Molière in Paris in 1667. This play is saying, in brief, that any ”choking-off of a cash flow brings only worse life to everyone around.” And the most frequent reasons: are greed, selfishness, ruthlessness, and dependence to sit on their own "chest" of money.
Procedurally, these states dampen the circulation of money and destroy its function. The greedy man (Mr. Harpagon) dies alone, abandoned by loved ones, but his chest is full of money, and around him, poverty far dominates.
The second contradiction, “Money Flow and Quality of Life” (a-d), is illustrated in another novel, “Father Goriot,” by Honoré de Balzac, in1834. It suggests that blindness to or resistance toward redirection of cash flow destroys human relations. It is again a standard status that has a strong potential to be opposed to one another.
Blindness here means a father's naive love for his daughters, an inability to understand the surroundings of his personality, and to manage one's wealth. A father loses money out of control and as well as a love for his daughters. He dies alone in poverty.
Financial freedom, like a dream, has been, for millennia, a subject of the longing for many. But in this age, with digital technology connecting everything and everyone, it is more often possible to strike a fortune within one’s lifetime and have a decent livelihood and significant improvement over the previous subsistence, starting with the minimum initial investment.
Financial freedom has been the desire of many people for millennia. It is an old idea. But nowadays, when digital technology connects everything and everyone, it is a new case. It is feasible to link money flows (finances in electronic form) to a specific performance, work done, or product or service with an internal value-added code for pre-identified market operations.
It isn't straightforward, but it's not a new thing. The shifts of many promising paths exist. Valuable results are made possible via new technologies (e.g., Blockchain, Smart Contracts), which will be given further attention in the text of this and other chapters.
Selection, formulation, and advocacy of the Top Tasks by Figure C1e.4 are again returned to three specific levels to indicate their usefulness and feasibility.
The first return, Figure C1d, has a philosophical content. Two triads offer a position for observers in the Great Triad (GT) and to paths of the Human to his/her goals. In a structure of time and place of their absorption capacity for each specific staging.
The second return, Figure C1e, is about the relationship of the role of money and financing structures to the mental features of the Human and his/her position in the Great Triad (GT).
The third return, Figure C1f, reminds the role of the human's intellectual potential (capacity) and his/her needs for being in the Great Triad (GT) environment.
Figure C1f does not directly present DD but says it is a practical (often used) presentation of multiple objects and their data in a triangle, pyramid, or triad.
Two examples - of models are reminiscent. The first model is about the relationships between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom (DIKW model), and the second is the Maslow Motivation model (MM model).
The DIKW model stands on four elements: Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Sometimes it is also referenced as "DIKW Hierarchy." A hierarchy is a system in which organizations or projects are ranked according to people's relative status or authority.
The hierarchy model is a more complex model of the hierarchy of Wisdom, Knowledge Hierarchy, and Information; it is called the "Knowledge Pyramid."Maslow Motivation model (MM model) represents a theory of motivation that states that five categories of human needs dictate an individual's behavior. Those needs are physiological, safety, love, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
Conditions that our actions are motivated by specific physiological requirements. It is often represented by a pyramid of needs, with the most basic needs at the bottom and more complex needs at the top.