A Word of Caution To The Corporate Drive For Cash

On By southwerkIn ethics, Philosophy of Business

I read this in the National Catholic Register today. As an academic, I must temper my religious remarks at school, and that is right and just. Those students do not pay to be converted to my idea of religion.

However, this is my blog, and I can say what I believe. All will be held to account in the day of judgment. The corporate followers of Friedman and the moral minimum will have their reward.

There will be a reckoning.

“Therefore, those whom fortune favors are warned that riches do not bring freedom from sorrow and are of no avail for eternal happiness, but rather are obstacles; that the rich should tremble at the threatenings of Jesus Christ —threatenings so unwonted in the mouth of Our Lord (Luke 6:24-25) — and that a most strict account must be given to the Supreme Judge for all we possess.”
—Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, 21-22

One thought on “A Word of Caution To The Corporate Drive For Cash”

  1. Andrew's avatar Andrew

    Even from the point of view of an atheist, corporate leaders without a moral compass are still a detriment to society as a whole. One does not have to appeal to the sense of an afterlife in order to see that those people are douchebags (please excuse the vulgarity).

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