5.10 The ways of economic time in the eras
Every Business Orientation creates its “time picture” reflected in a corresponding perception era.
- Not all human cultures abandoned the craftsmanship era in favor of industrial and post-industrial development. Zones with a prevailing concrete mentality, i.e. societies based not on civic values or principles but on personal relations and clan ties, still satisfy most of their economic needs through the Expert and basic Commodity Orientations. Their economies are technologically undeveloped.
- Cyclical crises of overproduction were characteristic of the general era and often triggered totalitarian social and economic doctrines. Ever since people have tried to manage these cycles instead of being their victim.
- In the autonomous global era great stress is put on growth. People are more and more concerned with the dynamics and quality of growth in many areas of life both as an objective and as a threat.
- The trouble with economic time for indigenous peoples in the Amazonian jungle is that they have none. They even have no natural time; rather they are part of it.
When official, conventional and countable time is missing, it is not possible to conclude contracts and check their fulfillments. And without contracts there is no economy.