That’s an insightful way to frame it. The “mind body dichotomy” you mention ties closely to how modern economies split value (money) from meaning (purpose). I’d argue that purpose driven work seeks to reunite those two, bringing together mind and body, meaning and material.
When work serves both human fulfillment and fair exchange, money regains its integrity as a reflection of genuine contribution, not manipulation.
Purpose doesn’t reject money; it restores its meaning.
I’d argue the same: that purpose driven work is supposed to merge the spiritual (mind) and material (body) towards the same purpose via incentive, which is the point of properly executed capitalism. The failures are part government and part cultural and must be addressed on both levels to correct this bifurcation.
Don’t give me too much credit though: much of what I said was from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, specifically from Francisco D’Anconia’s famous “meaning of money” speech.
Boy does she have some issues on tabula rasa, rejection of evolution as a system, and thinking that agoristic “strikes” (the working title for atlas shrugged”) would result in anything other than Waco/Ruby ridge. But her epistemology and ethical validation of capitalism are some of the most important contributions to philosophy in the last 100 years.
