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71:6.1 Present-day [[profit]]-[[motivated]] [[economics]] is [[doomed]] unless profit motives can be augmented by [[service]] [[motives]]. Ruthless [[competition]] based on narrow-minded [[self]]-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to [[maintain]]. Exclusive and self-serving [[profit]] [[motivation]] is incompatible with [[Christian]] [[ideals]]—much more incompatible with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus teachings of Jesus].
71:6.2 In [[economics]], [[profit]] [[motivation]] is to [[service]] motivation what [[fear]] is to [[love]] in [[religion]]. But the profit motive must not be suddenly destroyed or removed; it keeps many otherwise slothful [[mortals]] hard at [[work]]. It is not [[necessary]], however, that this [[social]] [[energy]] arouser be forever selfish in its objectives.
71:6.3 The [[profit]] [[motive]] of [[economic]] [[activities]] is altogether base and wholly unworthy of an advanced [[order]] of [[society]]; nevertheless, it is an indispensable [[factor]] throughout the earlier [[phases]] of [[civilization]]. [[Profit]] [[motivation]] must not be taken away from men until they have firmly possessed themselves of superior types of nonprofit motives for [[economic]] striving and [[social]] [[serving]]—the [[transcendent]] urges of superlative [[wisdom]], intriguing [[brotherhood]], and excellency of [[spiritual]] [[attainment]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_71 Go to Paper 71]</center>
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[[Category:Paper 71 - Development of the State]]
71:6.1 Present-day [[profit]]-[[motivated]] [[economics]] is [[doomed]] unless profit motives can be augmented by [[service]] [[motives]]. Ruthless [[competition]] based on narrow-minded [[self]]-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to [[maintain]]. Exclusive and self-serving [[profit]] [[motivation]] is incompatible with [[Christian]] [[ideals]]—much more incompatible with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus teachings of Jesus].
71:6.2 In [[economics]], [[profit]] [[motivation]] is to [[service]] motivation what [[fear]] is to [[love]] in [[religion]]. But the profit motive must not be suddenly destroyed or removed; it keeps many otherwise slothful [[mortals]] hard at [[work]]. It is not [[necessary]], however, that this [[social]] [[energy]] arouser be forever selfish in its objectives.
71:6.3 The [[profit]] [[motive]] of [[economic]] [[activities]] is altogether base and wholly unworthy of an advanced [[order]] of [[society]]; nevertheless, it is an indispensable [[factor]] throughout the earlier [[phases]] of [[civilization]]. [[Profit]] [[motivation]] must not be taken away from men until they have firmly possessed themselves of superior types of nonprofit motives for [[economic]] striving and [[social]] [[serving]]—the [[transcendent]] urges of superlative [[wisdom]], intriguing [[brotherhood]], and excellency of [[spiritual]] [[attainment]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_71 Go to Paper 71]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 71 - Development of the State]]