{"id":6947,"date":"2014-07-16T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/pope-says-economy-must-fight-throwaway-culture-85531\/"},"modified":"2014-07-16T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T04:58:00","slug":"pope-says-economy-must-fight-throwaway-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2014\/07\/pope-says-economy-must-fight-throwaway-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope says economy must fight ‘throwaway culture’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Rome, Italy, Jul 15, 2014 \/ 10:58 pm (CNA<\/a>).- Pope Francis had lunch with participants in an international economics seminar on Saturday, saying their efforts to bring the human being to the very center of the economy avoids a \u201cthrowaway culture.\u201d
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\n\tThe Pope addressed reductionist views of mankind, saying that \u201cthis is the strongest time of anthropological reductionism.\u201d
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\n\t\u201cIt happens to man what happens to wine when it is transformed into brandy: it passes through an organizational still. It is not wine anymore. It is another thing. Perhaps more useful, more qualified\u2026 but it is not wine!\u201d the Pope said July 12.
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\n\tHe continued: \u201cit is the same for man: man passes through this still and he ends up \u2013 seriously speaking! \u2013 losing his humanity. He becomes a tool of the system\u2026 the social system, the economic system\u2026 a system where imbalances dominate!\u201d
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\n\tPope Francis stressed that when man \u201closes his humanity,\u201d it results in \u201ca throwaway attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhat is not needed, it is thrown away, since man is not at the center (of things).\u201d When something else is at this center, \u201cman is at this other thing\u2019s service,\u201d the Pope warned.<\/p>\n

\tHis words came during the international seminar, \u201cThe Global Common Good: Towards a more inclusive economy,\u201d held at the Vatican July 11-12.
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\n\tThe seminar was organized by the Second Section of the State Secretariat, which deals with international and diplomatic matters, as well as by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
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\n\tThe seminar took motivation from a working research paper drafted by the economists Luigino Bruni, Stefano Zamagni, Andr\u00e9 Habish and Leonardo Becchetti. The paper focused on three main reductionisms of the global economy: that which see the human person as an economic agent driven primarily by self-interest and egoism; that which sees the subjects of economic activity, both private and public enterprise, as always oriented toward the production of goods and the maximization of profits; and that which considers \u201cvalue\u201d merely as a flow of goods and services.<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope praised the seminar for its studies and reflections, as well as its refusal to let the human person be \u201cthrown away.\u201d
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\n\t\u201cChildren are thrown away, because the birth rate, at least here in Europe, is very well known; old people are thrown away, because they are not useful. And now a whole generation of young people is being thrown away, and this is very grave,\u201d the pontiff said.
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\n\tHe mentioned that there are 75 million unemployed young people under 25 years old. He described their generation as the \u201cneither-nor\u201d generation, since \u201cthey neither study, since they have no opportunity to do it; nor do they work, because there is no job for them.\u201d
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\n\t\u201cThis is another waste. What else will be thrown away? Let\u2019s stop in time, please!\u201d<\/p>\n

\tDuring the two days of seminars, representatives of multinational companies, banks, and civil society met to push a new inclusive economic moment. The final statements of the seminar will be published soon.<\/p>\n

\tOne seminar participant told CNA July 14 that the event emphasized the goal of pushing the G-20 global economy group toward a reform of the banking system and to introduce an international tax on transnational financial transfers. It aimed to find new ways to fight unemployment, especially youth unemployment, while also working to promote ambitious and inclusive goals for sustainable development.
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\n\tMany of the participants stressed the need to fight so-called \u201ctax havens.\u201d
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\n\tRepresentatives of countries who are not part of the G-20 advocated a more inclusive body for world economic governance.
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\n\tThat goal was echoed by Bishop Mario Toso, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.<\/p>\n

\tHis opening remarks stressed the need for a \u201cpolyarchic,\u201d governing of society with \u201ca broad long term horizon, guided and harmonized by public institutions and inspired by those fundamental values in order to overcome social and anthropological reductionism.\u201d
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\n\tAmong the seminars\u2019 most active speakers were: Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank; the Bank of England\u2019s governor Mark Carney; the former general director of World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy; University of Cambridge economics professor Partha Dasgupta; Winnie Byaniyma, executive director of Oxfam international; Huguette Labelle, chair of the board of Transparency International; Indian activist Vandana Shiva; and Jos\u00e9 Angel Gurria, general secretary of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.<\/p>\n

\tAnother active participant was Juan Grabois, an Argentine lawyer who worked with the leaders of the \u201ccartoneros\u201d waste pickers movement in Buenos Aires to obtain legal recognition for them. Grabois had Pope Francis\u2019 support when the Pope was still Archbishop of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

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