Making more money, have you ever notice the difference?
For all those of you, non-nonsense guys out there, actually there are two major branch of disciplines if you are into corporatism. One is economy and the other is business (economic term). Much later on, they develop more complicated things such as Finance, Accounting, and then Risk Management, and other complicated non civilisation-developing stuffs. Each of them getting too much unnecessary detail, which makes it become more and more pointless.
I have nothing against economic science, after all, it is the the kind of discipline that I was raised from. It is actually pretty much scientific: finding out how the population could sustain its needs given the known limited resources available for them to be gathered. Every RTS games will give you this one lesson from economy: limited resources will lead to war, that's their only single scenario. Like many other sciences, they have a lot of exact definition a concept but their theories are mostly bounded by certain conditions and cannot always give satisfying explanations for every real events out there.
Other than economy, it is her snobbish, lying, and so all-knowing sibling named business. Like every other science on the field, this is economy's practical knowledge, or more popularly: applied science. But, to honestly define this: it is dumbed-down half-assed scientific studies, so common doofuses could at least get a grip on it to actually put it on the show.
Capitalism and Socialism are few of many great economic theories resulted from thorough studies and deep thoughts. But it is always the practice that bring them both down. The way they done their business is commonly cited as the main cause. Capitalism often found a lot of ways to fool themselves into believing themselves that there is such amount of money, which is actually does not exist. Through its other "applied science," called Financial, it invented many estimates, which most of the times are less accurate than David Beckham's freekick taken 23 metres from the goalie. Socialism pretty much destroy itself when they tried to force-feed everyone with it a.k.a communism: taking away your freedom for bullshit. Instead of spreading the wealth fairly, it is putting the system in the hand of one know-it-all smartass, who we all know is going to ruin it. Communism is not in anyway a socialism, but it is actually one of socialism in business: a bad move.
Credibility always gives someone an access card to ultimate douchebaggery without known limits.
The sad thing is that, business has already been widely accepted. People easily buy the nonsense, because they simply believe in them, and the system works also based on trust alone. There has never been something like this besides religion. It is systematic, because there is a large cult of people willing to uphold such beliefs to be true. Besides, what makes the value of a US Dollar other than your worthless trust? The fear of chaos keeps people from seeking better alternatives, and instead they tend to shift the blame elsewhere, which is the very basic of business science. This is the science of fear-mongering and pointing out on obviously the wrong cases.
Economic activity translates to productivity, which is people doing things to fulfill their needs. In today's world, most needs is exchangeable with money. Money is becoming the main commodity of today. There is nothing to fear about other than having the wrong perception about money. Most non-economic persons absolutely have no idea about what money is besides their school textbooks (which mediocre Indonesian education curriculum explain it badly). And, yes money is a commodity, it is nothing more than a goods, it is a piece of paper, warranted by the government and endorsed by law. It's value is changing everyday like every other goods in the market.
To satisfy demands efficiently, people began developing industries, which improves the production process a lot, that makes once luxury goods become affordable to almost everyone. The potency of industries in fulfilling the needs of many at reasonable cost has become the main key to Socialism. Up to this stage, people are still talking about the economy. But then industries got bigger to satisfy more demands. Now, we came to the part where others are trying to milk from this ever-growing economy machine (or money-making machine).
This is called business. It takes care of your basic economic activity management so industries can now think on the bigger scale. It is like Total War game series, where your cities are being partially managed so you don't have to dip your hands into managing each town/village/cities' wheat productions, tax collections, sanitation, maintenance, public events, etc. The people who are in charge for these things are doing its business.
As technology and specialisation progress, economy has become even more complicated. An industry could have more than one specific task to fulfill and also more than one income source. We never give a damn about what happen inside Terran's barracks or Zerg spawning pool while they are producing units. Perhaps they have their own accountants, HR department, Finance department, procurement, IT staffs, production planning & inventory control, etc. They seemed normal, but you'll expect more from their production staffs, the one who will have more influence on the quality and the quantity of the units produced by them. It is not always the case in the real world. They don't have marketing/sales, because you'll clean up their inventory immediately when the units are coming out from their production line.
So what if you produce silly things such as cloth softener? Do you really need such thing? But don't worry, that is where marketing business came to light. When industries are so desperate on competing in saturated market, they opted to create their own market by producing goods that is never needed before, like an iPhone. That is still fine.
But then, too much resources are attention are dedicated to this alone, that now we pay people to talk nonsense about the prospect of the products that they know shit about. These people most probably never visited their factory or have any slightest idea about what is operating system kernel, nor processor cache memory is for, but they talk about how big the industry will be in the future. The funny thing is, people trust them instead of the industry or the producer itself.
Serious people talk business, but their intelligence level are never questioned. Seriously awesome people talk about their stuff, it has never been less than awesome.
Even funnier, they started another activity of creating series of transaction deals between several parties and sell the rights to execute that transaction to interested buyers. Is this even in the economy? What kind of stupid people relies their economy on such bullshit? But that is business, the science of making more money. They'll always find a way to make more money from stupid people.
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