Líder de l'església a la Gran Bretanya demana una societat més igualitària i compartidora (Ang)

John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, outside York Minster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Leading Churchmen in Britain call for a more equal and sharing society | Share The World's Resources (STWR):

"The essay in the book by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, reportedly argues that conventional market assumptions such as ‘trickle down’ economics have failed, and rejects the idea that Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ of the market will ultimately right social wrongs.

An interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper broadly outlines the leading churchmen’s views on the need for a more equal and sharing society. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said that the book draws heavily on the writings of William Temple, the Archbishop of York and then Canterbury in the 1940s, which are credited with laying the foundations for a just post-war society and the welfare state.

Sentamu quoted one passage of the book to the paper, in which Temple argued that the art of government was in finding ways to bring together the interests of individuals with those of society at large, such as through universal access to healthcare or education.

As Sentamu explains in the Telegraph interview: “Temple was right; you judge the well-being of any society by how it cares for those who are vulnerable"

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trickle down 

La "teoria del degoteig" preconitza que cal donar tota mena de privilegis i favors als més rics, fent-los encara més rics, perquè en el futur una mica de la seva riquesa els degoti als més pobres.
  filtrar v prnl
  Les classes socials no són estables però la riquesa gairebé sempre es filtra des de les més altes fins a les més baixes.

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• "tu judges una societat, per la forma en què es preocupa per aquells que són més vulnerables"