“[W]hether he be artist or craftsman, engaged in management, industry or agriculture, everyone who works is a creator. Bent over a material that resists his efforts, a man by his work gives his imprint to it, acquiring, as he does so, perseverance, skill, and a spirit of invention. Further, when work is done in common, when hope, hardship, ambition, and joy are shared, it brings together and firmly unites the wills, minds, and hearts of men; in its accomplishment, men find themselves to be brothers.
“28. Work of course can have contrary effects, for it promises money, pleasure, and power, invites some to selfishness, others to revolt; it also develops professional awareness, sense of duty and charity to one’s neighbor. When it is more scientific and better organized, there is a risk of its dehumanizing those who perform it, by making them its servants, for work is human only if it remains intelligent and free.” (PP 26-7, p.246).
This quote caught my attention because I agree with this quote. As a society everyone contributes to help one another but of course we don’t choose to help one another for free. Money revolves around everyone and with out it we wouldn’t have majority of the things we have today. Money defines a person social class and the more money a person has the more power they hold. Money and power brings out the ugliness of a person. People tend to loose sight of right from wrong and the lower class starts becoming submissive to the higher class.
“A workman’s wages should be sufficient to enable him to support himself, his wife and his children.” (CA 8, p. 445 ).
Unfortunately today a person gets paid by the level of education the person has. School has become an important thing in today’s society. Its hard to support a family with minimum wage, its the reason many of our parents today encourage us and motivate us to attend college. A workman’s wage should be sufficient to enable him to support himself and his family but sadly in today’s society it doesn’t.
“God gave the earth to the whole human race for the sustenance of all its members, without excluding or favoring anyone. This is the foundation of the universal destination of the earth’s goods.” (CA 31, p. 462 ).
God did create the human race without excluding anyone but humans exclude one another. Humans tend to treat one another the way they want to. God didn’t make anyone perfect and therefore we have faults. Unfortunately not everyone thinks the same, God might have given us the world but many people feel like they deserve all of it.
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