Author: Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo
Journal: GAESEMA / CHAPTER 4 OF BOOK IV – The Origin of All Production, 2nd Work (Money is a Complex Product), GAESEMA Year: 2025
Abstract
This article presents a philosophical and economic approach to the nature of money based on the GAESEMA Philosophy, which understands it as a human product generated not only through material labor but also through the producer’s faith. By integrating the concepts of money, product, and faith, the article seeks to propose an alternative model to classical economic thought—one that centers production as a spiritual and relational act. Faith is addressed as a foundational element of trust in economic exchanges, being essential for value generation and for the sustainability of productive systems. The article argues that restoring faith in labor and the justice of exchange can transform money into a symbol of collective well-being.
Keywords: Money, Production, Faith, Economic Trust, GAESEMA Philosophy, Value, Spiritual Economy
1. Introduction
In the context of GAESEMA Philosophy, money is not merely conceived as a unit of exchange or an abstract measure of value, but as a human product imbued with spirituality and trust. Its essence transcends the material and resides in the producer’s intentions, belief in the utility of labor, and the justice of exchange. This article explores the relationship between money, product, and faith, highlighting the centrality of trust in economic and productive relations.
2. Money as a Product Generated by Faith
Faith, understood as rational and ethical trust in the productive system, is the driving force behind the creation of money as a socially recognized product. Production, when carried out with the belief that it will generate value and recognition, incorporates an element of faith that goes beyond materiality.
For instance, the act of planting a seed presupposes trust in the natural productive cycle. This initial gesture by the farmer is motivated by concrete faith—the belief that their work will bear fruit. The same applies to economics: production only occurs when there is faith in fair compensation.
According to Arrow (1972), trust is the lubricant of the social system. The producer’s faith is that silent lubricant of the economic engine—without it, the system wears out, demotivates, and collapses.
3. Faith in Economics as Human Relationship
Economy is, fundamentally, a network of human relationships, and money is the symbolic instrument that measures trust within those relationships. When a worker offers their labor in exchange for money, they are placing their faith in the structure that governs that exchange.
As Giddens (1990) argues, trust in abstract systems is a cornerstone of modern societies. However, when this trust is broken by systemic injustices, corruption, or the devaluation of labor, an economic faith crisis emerges, expressed in practices of informality or withdrawal from the formal system.
Thus, money is more than represented value—it is believed value.
4. The Product as a Reflection of the Producer’s Faith
Production inherently carries the intentionality of the subject. The final product is not merely an object: it is a visible manifestation of the invisible hope that moved its creator. When work is performed with dedication and belief in its social utility, the product takes on symbolic and spiritual value.
This line of thought converges with Karl Marx’s concept of living labor, which views labor as a value-creating force rather than merely a cost (Marx, 1867). GAESEMA Philosophy extends this concept by including faith as an active element in the production of value.
5. The Relationship Between Money, Product, and Faith in Economics
A healthy economy depends on the harmony between production, trust, and justice. Money, product, and faith form an interdependent triangle:
- Money is born from the belief that the product has value.
- The product is created with the worker’s faith in its usefulness.
- Faith sustains fair economic circulation.
Drawing from Amartya Sen (1999), we may say that the freedom to produce with faith and receive fair compensation is one of the most fundamental forms of economic freedom. Faith is not a psychological luxury—it is an invisible economic resource, without which value cannot be sustained in the long run.
FAITH AS THE CREATIVE SPARK
6. The Idea as a Reformed Productive Principle
In the realm of human production, there exists an origin point that eludes traditional economic and technical logics. This point is not in tools, capital, or physical structures. According to Angolan thinker Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo—author of the GAESEMA Philosophy and the book The A, E, I, O, U of Production—production begins with FAITH: an invisible spark, an inner vibration preceding action, even preceding structured thought.
This spark is, in fact, the Idea—the inaugural instant when the invisible presents itself as possibility. It is the primal and spiritual state of the creative process. For Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo:
In the beginning was the Idea. And the Idea was with Man. And Man was a producer.
Far from being mere poetic metaphor, this statement reveals a philosophical understanding that the productive act originates in an inner faith in something that is not yet—but already vibrates within the human spirit.
FAITH: The Initial State of Creation
Faith, in this context, is neither religious belief nor blind trust. It is the intuition of a truth not yet revealed—it is the spiritual anticipation of what may come to be. It is the ability to perceive, even amid nothingness, a latent seed of reality. This perception is not rational or logical—it is an inner experience, a sensitive revelation, the silent beginning of every work.
To Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo, Faith is the A—the alpha—the first sound of productive existence, the breath that breaks silence and proclaims:
I am here to create.
This is the ignition point, the threshold between emptiness and possibility, where the producer’s spirit connects with the invisible and transforms it into creative impulse.
The Idea as the Spirit’s Pregnancy
That first spark—the Idea—is a pregnancy of the spirit. It has no form, no name, no structure yet, but contains within it the full potential of a new reality. As the author writes in The A, E, I, O, U of Production:
Every created form, every accomplished work, every ingenious solution was, at its origin, merely an abstract seed—a solitary thought, floating between feeling and knowing.
At this stage, the producer does not yet act; they are in a state of listening, of silent contemplation. They become a mediator between two worlds: the world of non-being and the world of becoming. This intermediate space is sacred and often neglected by the logic of immediacy and mechanical productivity.
But it is in this fertile void that transformation begins. It is there that the spirit finds the inner vision that will shape the work. Without this moment of faith, without this openness to the invisible, no productive gesture is sustained, no technique has soul, no work is authentic.
Producing is Anticipating Possibility
GAESEMA Philosophy invites us to a new understanding of creation. Beyond profit, utility, or technical reproduction, producing is responding to an inner vision. It is transforming a sensed need into conscious creation—it is responding to the world not only with hands, but with an awakened spirit.
As the author affirms:
True production does not rise from figures. It rises from applied imagination, from the rare yet essential ability to see what is not yet—and act to bring it into existence.
It is faith that makes this gesture possible. Faith precedes every technique, every calculation, every execution. It transforms raw desire into articulated dream. It transfigures emptiness into form, fear into work, lack into culture.
Faith as the Spiritual Raw Material of Production
By stating that Faith is the initial spark, Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo affirms that true economy begins in the invisible—not in banks, contracts, or business plans, but in the human heart that dares to imagine what does not yet exist. The Idea is thus the spiritual raw material of production, and Faith is the soil in which it germinates. It is the gesture that precedes movement. The project that precedes the plan. The fire that precedes the forge.
This conception challenges all traditional theories of productivity that reduce the creative process to logic, planning, or economic interest. Within GAESEMA thought, production is a spiritual, existential, and philosophical reality. It is an act of resistance against conformism and emptiness. To create is, above all, to believe.
The Idea is the Beginning—Faith is its Cradle
For Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo, Faith is the first creative force. Through it, the Idea is ignited, and production begins. Every work, every material or social transformation, begins in that subtle moment when the human being contacts their inner vision and hears the sacred whisper of the spirit:
Create.
By asserting this spiritual origin of production, GAESEMA Philosophy calls us to reform not only the means of production but our very perspective on what it means to produce. To produce is not to repeat, but to anticipate. Not merely to manufacture, but to generate. And every act of generation begins with faith.
Faith, therefore, is more than belief—it is the creative spark of the producer’s spirit.
6. Final Considerations
Redefining money as a product of human faith is more than a philosophical provocation—it is a practical proposal for economic restructuring. Rather than being merely an instrument of power or accumulation, money can become a symbol of trust, reciprocity, and collective well-being.
GAESEMA Philosophy proposes that restoring faith in the productive process be the starting point for a new economic model centered on the dignity of labor, the ethics of exchange, and the spirituality of production.
References
- Arrow, Kenneth J. (1972). Gifts and Exchanges. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1(4), 343–362.
- Giddens, Anthony (1990). The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford University Press.
- Marx, Karl (1867). Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I.
- Sen, Amartya (1999). Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press.
- Ângelo, Gilson Guilherme Miguel (2025). O A, E, I, O, U da Produção. Filosofia GAESEMA – Obra Filosófica, Livro I.
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