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.
Just spend some time this summer at this Private Castle in Cancela, Tavira. If you love the privacy, silence & the view this is the place. Nothing like lying in the still hot stone in the castle & a glass of Red looking at the stars with no noise and no light.
Very difficult to book because there are only 10 rooms available. But it's worth the effort.
Forte de São João da Barra is the name.
If you are on the bikes you can climb to Cachopo on the road bike (some 100 k) or if you just want to do a nice MTB ride you can go to Cancela using the bike lane in front of the sea.
Two people feel strongly about an issue, their feelings come first, and their reasons are invented on the fly to throw at each other. When you refute a person's argument, does she generally change her mind and agree with you? Of course not, because the argument you defeated was not the cause of her position; it was made up after the judgment was already made.
From The happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt
I think most of the people make up their mind in a second on the first impressions and after find some reasons to justify what they already decided to do. Lesson? Make a good first impression.
