Author: Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo
GAESEMA Journal | CAP. 6 of the book production | Year 2025 | Special Edition 8

Chapter 7 of The A, E, I, O, U of Production moves the debate beyond “how much we produce” to why we produce. GAESEMA teaches that value is not completed in the factory or the farm; it is only consummated when a product changes hands and meets a human need. By replacing reductionist economics with a “spiritual-social-ecological” logic, the chapter presents a triad—Production → Exchange (Permuta) → Satisfaction—that can regenerate communities, re-humanise markets and reconnect people to purpose. The article below unfolds each point, inviting governments, entrepreneurs, educators and citizens to rethink wealth as a living cycle, not a numerical stockpile.

1. The Natural Cycle: From Production to Satisfaction

Production is the primal act of converting matter or ideas into usable form; yet a tool stored on a shelf is potential, not value. Only when that tool reaches another person through exchange does its full meaning emerge, and only when the user’s need is eased is the cycle complete. Hence the sequence Produce → Exchange → Satisfy is not optional but organic. Remove exchange and creativity stagnates; remove satisfaction and trade becomes hollow. GAESEMA therefore defines economy as the alignment of these three moments into one continuous flow where wealth is measured by fulfilled lives, not accumulated stock.

2. Exchange as a Spiritual & Social Act

In GAESEMA, exchange is more than a commercial handshake; it is a covenant between creators. Each transaction contains trust, mutual recognition, relief of need and renewal of the productive loop. Money can assist, but it is only a sign-language of value, never the value itself. To barter, buy or gift is spiritual because it confirms that my work finds completion in your life. When both parties sense that reciprocity, exchange elevates from market routine to human solidarity, weaving the social fabric tighter with every trade.

3. Satisfaction: The Ultimate Purpose of Production

A product proves its worth only when it delivers well-being. GAESEMA distinguishes three concentric levels: physical satisfaction (food, shelter, health); emotional/social satisfaction (belonging, joy, identity); and spiritual satisfaction (meaning, truth, transcendence). Conscious production aims for all three, recognising that a loaf of bread also carries culture and a book can nourish the soul. Profit is acceptable, but it is a shadow benefit; the primary dividend is the harmony created between object and person.

4. The Ethics of Exchange

When ethics evaporate, exchange tilts toward exploitation and satisfaction shrivels into regret. Just pricing, origin transparency, respect for labour and a fair ratio between cost and benefit are the safeguards GAESEMA demands. A truly “rich” deal is one where both sides exit wealthier not only in currency but in dignity. Economies built on deceptive advertising, hidden labour abuse or planned obsolescence may grow GDP yet impoverish society’s moral capital—an unsustainable bargain.

5. Local Production, Fair Exchange, Collective Fulfilment

Territorialised economies shorten the distance between maker and user, reducing costs, humanising relationships and protecting culture. When communities circulate their own goods first, money stays local, skills are honed, and environmental footprints shrink. Only surplus then travels outward, strengthening external trade from a position of internal health. GAESEMA thus champions “produce where you live, exchange with who you know, satisfy together,” turning villages and neighbourhoods into resilient economic cells.

6. Production as a Bridge between Peoples

The triad also scales internationally. A nation conscious of its unique productions knows what gifts it can share and what resources it can receive without shame. Africa, cradle of civilisations, can revisit its indigenous crafts, agro-know-how and creative arts to negotiate from strength, not dependency. Exchange handled with pride and ethics becomes diplomacy in action—a peaceful linkage of cultures through mutually honoured value.

7. Spiritual Exchange: Every Product a Seed

GAESEMA’s most radical claim is that every artefact is a spiritual seed. The intention embedded by the maker germinates in the user’s life, influencing thoughts and behaviours. Exchange, then, is an unseen meeting of souls mediated by visible goods, and satisfaction is the blossoming of that interior seed. When production is grounded in integrity, the harvest is societal uplift; when grounded in greed, the harvest is emptiness. Recognising this dimension restores reverence to work and responsibility to trade.

Conclusion

Production, exchange and satisfaction are not separate departments of the economy; they are successive breaths of the same living system. GAESEMA invites us to breathe consciously: create with care, trade with honour, fulfil with wholeness. In doing so we replace extraction with reciprocity, consumption with completion, and profit-only metrics with the richer accounting of human flourishing. An economy that forgets satisfaction is a factory without purpose; an economy that honours the triad is a civilisation in balance with itself and the Earth.

Conceptual References

• Gilson G. M. Ângelo (2024). The A; E; I; O; U of Production
• GAESEMA Philosophy: Economic, Social, Spiritual, and Moral Management of Africa

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