Economics is a very serious discipline when it comes to capital letters. I still remember what the first approach to this science was like. That graph that we were represented on the board of the institute was the first big lie to immerse ourselves in the economy. Central markets and companies dominated the economy and, therefore, the world. The image showed us that while companies created wealth, “families” performed two other functions; on the one hand, the workforce for factories and on the other hand, that of the consumer. Through a seemingly harmless graph, we started looking at the economy from a false position. From that first day on, we started building a world of cracks.

This first deception was fueling more lies. At the Faculty we had to swallow many hours of Orthodox Economy class, macro- and micro-sharp models, fat formulas and mathematical functions that choked us. It was years since that Economy collapsed and began to build another. It would be the second year of the University when the theories of Marxism came in. Beware of capitalism, which is painful! That same day, the professor also used a graph to explain how Capital exploits labor. To show how capitalism expropriated work, the worker and, therefore, man. Work, work, work, man and work, at the rhythm of Artze's poetry.

It took years to give a new dimension to the exploitation denounced by Marx. The first breaths of the feminist economy came after undergraduate studies, in master's schools. The feminist perspective made us see that capitalism, in addition to the men of factories, exploits and expropriates women from homes. That is, using the terms of Marx,

That capitalism exploits the worker in the market and exploits the domestic unit. In these schools we also had several images, and among all of us, I remember that kind of Iceberg. The tip of the iceberg is the field of the visible economy, the productive economy. The densest part, totally invisible, is the one that is hidden underwater, and those areas of the out-of-market economy are the ones that deeply hold Life. In uppercase, we mean economies able to care for lives. Because capitalism goes against life and conflict, in the words of Amaia Pérez Orozco, is between Capital and Life.

In that first school of economics, we began to draw an unsustainable world from a simple image. At the epicenter we were sold as a god the image of the market. In this socioeconomic structure, which aims to accumulate capital, there is no trace of the need to care for life and land and there is no trace of the damage caused by capitalism. Apparently, in order to see the cracks in this world, it is essential to suffer crises, to suffer care and to suffer climatic crises. Otherwise, we are not able to believe that capitalism, in addition to exploiting work, man and household units, also exploits mother earth.

It's important how we look and understand the world, because that's going to condition how we're going to survive in this world. A serious issue, how we build the economy in our imagination.