Showing posts with label He lights his pipe and says between puffs "Jacques Maritain sounds like a Socialist!" and other rebuffs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label He lights his pipe and says between puffs "Jacques Maritain sounds like a Socialist!" and other rebuffs. Show all posts
Friday, December 6, 2019
Why common good capitalism?
Yeah, just the common good, thanks. I don't need it several times removed.
The common good is a more concrete reality than the GDP or the Stock Market.
GDP and the Stock Market have become little more than superstitious time delay/expiry dated advance lotteries that conservatives idolize a hundred times more than ancient Aztecs running their lives to complex astrological patterns. Like the enlightened shamans ruling the lower class, the conservatives warn that if any of this very complex system is ever undone (don't sign those climate pacts!) it will spell absolute ruin.
The Pope recognizing like a sane person that there exists complex marriage situations, with a view towards regularizing and reconciling - screw that! Time to get on board with the Restoration bitches! Oh what's that? Change the economy? You naive little underling! The economy is vast and complex the likes of which you hardly understand! Remove one thread and the whole thing will spell ruin for all!
LOL
The common good is also more specific and local in its end, whereas the others uproot and homogenize.
The common good is also more lasting, definitive, stable, whereas the others can disappear tomorrow, are amorphous from day to day, and are ever volatile, like those whimsical pagan gods who one day are benevolent and the next day demand your children's blood.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Universal Basic Income
"We think that, in a system where a (more social) conception of property would be in force, this axiom ('nothing for nothing') would not be able to survive. Quite to the contrary, the law of usus communis would lead us to establish that, at least and foremost, what regards the basic material and spiritual needs of the human person, it is proper for people to get, for nothing, as many things as possible... The human person being served in his basic necessities is only, after all, the first condition of an economy which does not deserve to be called barbarous.
"The principles of such an economy would lead to a better understanding of the profound meaning and the essentially human roots of the idea of inheritance, in such a way that... all men, upon entering into the world, could effectively enjoy, in some way, the condition of being a heir of the preceding generations." --Jacques Maritain, Integral Humanism
"Finally, it is this equal condition of being coheirs of everyone's efforts which makes it feasible for all people to get, as much as possible and at no cost, a share of the basic material and spiritual goods that are required for human existence." --Jacques Maritain, Principles of a Humanistic Economy
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