I think that if you want to improve the economic level,you must increase productivity firstly .Marx said that machines are dead productive forces,only by encourage people’s subjective productivity can form the social productivity.And morality is the basis and main element of subjective productivity.Beacause the main element of productivity is workers.And the conciousness of workers directly affects their values and attitudes and ulyimately directly determines the achievements and productivity level.
The labor tools and labor objects in productivity is the main elements of productivity.And the recognition and devcelopment of labor tools also depend on people’s morality.The labor who is unwilling to innovate is unable to actively update the labor toolsand improve improve the level of labor tools.
If we don’t improve people’s moral standards,even if their living standards are no longer high,there is no guarantee.There is a county magistrate in GuangDong Province who lives a rich life but his mother eats leftovers and the old woman finally suffers to hang herself.The county magistrate’s living standard is very high but because his moral level is poor ,he was tried by moral court and charged with maltreatment.
So improving moral level is necessary before improving economic level.