Work is not a commodity,
Pope Francis said in a letter to participants at a trades unions
conference in the Vatican Friday. Work, being basic for
development, must have "priority" over all other production
factors including capital, he said. "Hence the ethical
imperative to defend jobs and create new ones in proportion to
the increase in economic profitability, just as it is necessary
to guarantee the dignity of work per se". The pope said the
economy must not increase job losses. He said "we don't want the
development of an economic system that raises the numbers of
those jobless, landless and homeless". "The fruits of the earth
and work are for all, and must be equally shared by all".
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