Affirming our dignity (Thomas Carlyle / Pope Francis)

Blessed is he who has found his work;
let him ask no other blessedness.

--Thomas Carlyle

    There is an urgent need to find new forms of work truly capable of fulfilling our human potential and affirming our dignity. In order to ensure dignified employment, there must be a change in the prevailing economic paradigm, which seeks only to expand companies’ profits. Offering jobs to more people should be one of the main objectives of every business, one of the criteria for the success of productive activity. Technological progress is valuable and necessary, provided that it serves to make people’s work more dignified and safe, less burdensome and stressful. 

--Pope Francis,
Seventy-fifth Meeting of the
General Assembly of the United Nations,
25 September 2020

Happy Labor Day from OLMC!

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