We can work to improve the current lack of understanding among civilian employers on the portability of military skills sets, and help veterans to earn an academic credential that translates the training received while serving in the military into readily understood civilian terms.

FORBES: Our Returning Military: We Need to Do More

And yet the basis of our economic existence is readily and intuitively understood by just about anyone: we wrest materials from the Earth, we make things and we provide services.

BBC: A Point of View: And all shall worship money