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According to Baha'u'llah writings, "The fundamental basis of the community is agriculture" [8] and only when this occupies its proper place in society, world affairs can improve. In fact: "the peasant class and the agricultural class exceed other classes in the importance of their service" [9], because it is mainly through agriculture that we get basic consumer goods, but nations are far from modifying their economic politics and continue to promote agreements to draw on resources as fast as possible in order to achieve more and more progress. In over 50 glorious years of the neocapitalistic "bell epoque", roughly from the 50's until now, big economic variables (growth, production, productivity, salaries) increased more or less constantly and proportionally. More growth in production meant more productivity, but also more work, higher salaries and more consumption. And of course it meant more available income to redistribute through the tax system for market activities and for social uses. Consequently more space emerged for the welfare state.
(23:2)
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