Re Why Work Isn’t Working,September
This article reminded me of the many times I have heard sermons on Jesus’ parable of the talents, five, two and one. The only character held accountable, and severely so, is the miserable guy who was entrusted with only one talent.
There is the strong inference that it is all right for people to be rich enough to go off on a holiday or business trip leaving managers at home, hoping they will give a good return on the investment. This very much resembles today’s world of the rich—investors, large-scale developers, bankers—in a word, the corporation, which cannot do other than seek huge profits. The corporate mind reasons that it has only one responsibility: the shareholder.
Kevin McCabe is right on with his analysis of how it has come about that so many persons have been cast into states of poverty by outsourcing and by what he calls the “cost-benefit analysis” of unregulated business practices. What church dares to “point out the pitfalls of unregulated businesses?”
Back to the answer I got two years ago: these are the invisible majority. Let them fend for themselves. Do two jobs if one is not enough. What more do you want? You have a full-time job, part-time. Sorry, no benefits.
Does this person need any other perdition?
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