Is there a God?

I hope you never expect me to answer a question like this.  Most people who believe in a God or a 'higher power' ascribe powers to intervene in human lives, making prayer and moral behavior relevant to the individual's relationship to God.  Such a god is like Santa Claus.

I wish to suggest that there is such a phenomenon.  It is the market response to a commercial mind. The invisible hand of Adam Smith operating in our lives. If you have and use a commercial mind you will be rewarded generously, extravagantly, sometimes more than Croesus.

What is a commercial mind?  There is an academic mind, a military mind, a political mind, a technological mind, a healing mind, a religious and many other kinds of minds.  

A commercial mind has several qualities that distinguishes it from other kinds of minds. A commercial mind is pragmatic, always open to change, driven by customer desires and always willing to treat reliable financial data as important. When a person with a commercial mind confronts the world he sees many things others don't see.  He sees with a freshness that accepts novelty with enthusiasm, he sees others communicating with him via financial data, imploring him to act.  The person with a commercial mind sees what can be done that others doubt or do not see.

We live in a society where such a mind is rewarded in many ways.  It is rewarded with extra work, extra opportunities, extra wealth and abundance of all resources.  

Commerce rewards meritocratically. Pretty much like a god rewarding moral behavior.. except commercial behavior is rewarded and commercial behavior is amoral (non-moral).