Pope Francis advocates a universal salary and the reduction of the working day

The pope called today for “a universal salary, so that each person in this world can access the most elementary goods of life” and for “the reduction of the working day”, as a measure for greater access for all to work and demanded “The release of patents” of vaccines.

“It is essential to adjust our socio-economic models so that they have a human face, because so many models have lost it. Thinking of these situations, I want to ask you in the name of God “the pontiff noted in a post on Twitter.

“This system, with its relentless logic of profit, is escaping all human domain. It’s time to slow down the locomotive, a runaway locomotive that is leading us into the abyss. We are still on time”, assured the pontiff, in a message on the occasion of the IV World Meeting of Popular Movements.

In it he stressed the need to change the current socio-economic system and asked governments, politicians, companies and religious leaders to help in this goal, while demanding “The release of patents” of the vaccines, the cancellation of the debt of poor countries and the cessation of the destruction of “Forests, wetlands and mountains”, by the large extractive corporations; of the contamination of rivers and seas, and of the poisoning “of towns and foods”.

He also requested that powerful countries stop the aggressions: “No to neocolonialism”he said, adding that it must be the HIM-HER-IT the instance to resolve conflicts because “we have already seen how unilateral interventions, invasions and occupations end, even if they are done under the noblest motives or clothing.”

He asked governments and politicians to “Work for the common good”, beware of “listening only to the economic elites” and “be servants of the peoples who cry out for land, shelter, work and a good life” and to the religious leaders that “we never use the name of God to foment wars or coups of State”.

He also referred to “Protests over the death of George Floyd”. “It is clear that this type of reaction against social, racial or sexist injustice can be manipulated or instrumented” but “that movement did not pass by when it saw the wound of human dignity struck by such an abuse of power.”

He mentioned “concrete measures that may allow some significant changes”, such as “urban integration, family farming, the popular economy. To these, which still require continuing to work together to achieve them, I would like to add two more: the universal salary and the reduction of the working day ”.

He also claimed “a basic income (the IBU) or universal salary, so that each person in this world can access the most basic goods of life”, as well as a serious analysis of the reduction of the working day as a redistributive element of the workload among the population.

Source: EFE