Pope Francis used an Easter message to advocate for a socialist "universal basic wage."
Writing to the leaders and organizers around the globe, Francis said universal basic income, something that only far-left American politicians support, would achieve an "ideal."
"This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out," Francis wrote. "It would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights."
He went on to write that western civilization needs to "downshift" from its "individualistic" way of life rife with "disproportionate profits”, an extension of the social justice platform that Francis’ adopted as the first Jesuit Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
According to the Catholic American Magazine, Francis is steering policymakers toward a transformative frame for economic thinking — one that alters the global terrain altogether, as universal cash payments could do.
"My hope is that governments understand that technocratic paradigms (whether state-centred or market-driven) are not enough to address this crisis or the other great problems affecting humankind," he wrote. "Now more than ever, persons, communities and peoples must be put at the centre, united to heal, to care and to share."
Spain is one such country that has already committed to immediately implement UBI to blunt the economic fallout from COVID-19. The Pope is pleased with this and wants other countries to do likewise, including America.
Perhaps he missed that part about separation of church and state.
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