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Investment As How Society Decides What Our Future History Can, Should and Will Be Made To Be

The path to prosperous adaptation to life’s constant changes through inquiry, insight, enterprise and exchanges has few intermediate steps:

• It starts when inquiring minds who want to know begin examining what is and imagining what might be in philosophical ways.
• Philosophy provides hypotheses that can be tested by Science.
• Science expresses verified hypotheses in theories, rules and formulas.
• Art and design make new theories affordable to the general population, in the design sense of “showing people directly, and correctly, what they can do with” new insights into new possibilities.
• Engineering applies the theories, rules and formulas from Science to build artifacts of human ingenuity that can be collaboratively co-created in volume by enterprise for sharing with others through exchange, for a price.

Visionary leaders of creative enterprises see the possibilities for establishing a social contract with popular choice that will flourish for a time (before fading in the fullness of time), as people see that times are changing, and the new choice being offered by the new enterprise is a better fit to changing times.

Enterprise requires a concentration of effort to collaboratively co-create surpluses for sharing. Concentration costs money.

When enterprise needs money, Finance provides. IF Finance sees value in that enterprising vision.

Finance decides what the future history of prosperous adaptation to life’s constant changes can, should and will be made to be through investment in enterprise and exchange.

Investment anticipates popular choice, so popular choice makes the ultimate decision about whether or not Finance is getting the enterprise right, but in many cases Finance stands between enterprise and popular choice, deciding what choices will be offered to the people.

So, everyone has an interest in making sure that Finance is getting enterprise right.