Book of Mormon Thoughts

It seems to me that Alma's church was an "everything in common" church. That would mean that when the Nephites were in their "pride" cycle, that they were falling from the consecrative aspect of the church. What were falling toward? Obviously, they fell into an everyone on their own type of economy where each person prospers according to the management of the creature. That seems to connote a system in which we live in today. When this happened, the church began to fail in it's progress. Luckily the LDS church doesn't have this problem because we have never been asked to consecrate and are not living this higher law as a church. In Alma's church, member were excommunicated for not repenting of the pride of their hearts. That seems to be in part the wearing of fine apparel. In order to repent the member apparently had to stop using his substance for expensive things. Envy and mocking were also aspects of pride.