'We are human beings and not machines, unique people and not spare parts,' says Pope Francis, after 5 railway maintenance workers were killed by a passing train in the northern Italian town of Brandizzo
on Monday, September 11, blamed accidents at work on excessive profit-seeking and the “idolatry of the market,” in a fresh swipe at unbridled capitalism that has led some right-wing critics to paint him as a far-left radical.
“Tragedies [in the workplace] begin when the focus is no longer on man, but on productivity, and man turns into a production machine,” Francis said in a speech to the Italian association of people injured at work.Francis likened the frequent reports of workplace tragedies to a “war bulletin.” Such incidents happen when “work becomes dehumanized…and turns into an exasperated race for profit,” he said.
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