Friday, March 28, 2014
Work and human dignity
Closely related!
“It is necessary to reaffirm that employment is necessary for society, for families and for individuals”, said the Pope. “Its primary value is the good of the human person, as it allows the individual to be fully realised as such, with his or her attitudes and intellectual, creative and manual capacities. Therefore, it follows that work has not only the economic objective of profit, but above all a purpose that regards man and his dignity. And if there is no work, this dignity is wounded! Indeed, the unemployed and underemployed risk being relegated to the margins of society, becoming victims of social exclusion”.Reminds me of an article I read a while ago, about a problem with welfare programs being that they assumed all utility came from consumption, but in reality for humans, much utility comes from production.
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