Where there is no work, there is no dignity

quarta-feira, setembro 25, 2013 David Barradas 0 Comments

The Pope is right!

From FT

Unemployment and the value of work were a major theme of the pontiff’s visit on Sunday to Sardinia, one of Italy’s poorest regions and home to its last and dwindling coal mining community. The island depends on government subsidies and has been hit hard by recession and government austerity policies.

Departing from his set text, as has become his trademark, Pope Francis addressed a meeting in the island’s main port of Cagliari where a huge crowd, including miners, chanted “work, work, work”.

“Where there is no work, there is no dignity,” the Argentine pontiff said after a week in which some western stock markets hit record highs. “It is not a problem of Italy and Europe . . . It is the consequence of a world choice, of an economic system that brings about this tragedy, an economic system that has at its centre an idol which is called money.”

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2edeb13e-23a5-11e3-98a1-00144feab7de.html#axzz2ftMPujPf

Well the Pope is right! If the cost of work is a cost, any company management should reduce it and even replace it with a machine that could do the same task with no risk! (no sick leaves, don't ask for more money and don't strike) Machines can even work non stop 24 hours a day.

If you want to live, you have to cut costs.

If all companies and all managements in the word try to reduce the labor cost we will get a slowly and structural high and rising unemployment. Of course some people that are replaced with machines will figure out something else to do but all in all the unemployment is rising everywhere.

With the help of machines we don't need everybody to work in order to have everything we need! This is a fact.

What society will do with people who have no job and that are not needed i don't know. But this is a problem that is already a problem. This is not a future problem! It's a reality already.