It turns out that alms for the poor are \u201cprovisional\u201d. \u00a0The real goal is that the poor have access to work at a living wage. \u00a0The real thieves are not the poor seeking a living wage, but those who downsize them, underpay them, and (for a crowning insult) blame them as lazy for being unemployed):<\/p>\n
We were created with a vocation to work. The goal should not be that technological progress increasingly replace human work, for this would be detrimental to humanity. Work is a necessity, part of the meaning of life on this earth, a path to growth, human development and personal fulfilment. Helping the poor financially must always be a provisional solution in the face of pressing needs. The broader objective should always be to allow them a dignified life through work. Yet the orientation of the economy has favoured a kind of technological progress in which the costs of production are reduced by laying off workers and replacing them with machines. This is yet another way in which we can end up working against ourselves. The loss of jobs also has a negative impact on the economy \u201cthrough the progressive erosion of social capital: the network of relationships of trust, dependability, and respect for rules, all of which are indispensable for any form of civil coexistence\u201d.<\/span>[104]<\/a>\u00a0In other words, \u201chuman costs always include economic costs, and economic dysfunctions always involve human costs\u201d.<\/span>[105]<\/a>\u00a0To stop investing in people, in order to gain greater short-term financial gain, is bad business for society.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It turns out that alms for the poor are \u201cprovisional\u201d. \u00a0The real goal is that the poor have access to work at a living wage. \u00a0The real thieves are not the poor seeking a living wage, but those who downsize them, underpay them, and (for a crowning insult) blame them as lazy for being unemployed): […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[718],"class_list":["post-93055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-laudato-si"],"yoast_head":"\n
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