Realists, A Tale Of Two Economies, Dr. Tim Morgan, Surplus Energy Economics, looks at the financial economy and the physical economy. The financial economy is supposed to be an accurately workable representation of the physical economy, but with some time flexibility on the use of money, and the risk and reward relationship over time, which is "investing". The flexibility afforded by the parallel economies is of great advantage to the working of the physical economy because most trades are not equal and are not even in the same place or the same time, like trading harvests of beans for harvests of corn.
Take a look at this timely blast from the past: Ivan Illich on Medical Nemesis 1974. https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/919
Garden looking great John! Just turned mine over last weekend still a month away from planting in my zone :-(