In the economic system that we have produced this
last century, there is something that is clearly dying, but there is also
something new emerging on the horizon.
The
economy has extreme need of resurrection. Every resurrection is preceded and prepared by a
crisis, by a passage or change: one does not resurrect if first, in some way,
one does not die. In the economic system that we have produced in this last
century there is, in fact, something that is clearly dying out, but there is
also something new which is emerging on the horizon, even if we need “eyes of
resurrection” to be able to see it, and then to recognize it for what it really
is; that is, the dawn of a new day.
If we had
eyes of resurrection we would see, for example, that Italy and the world are
moving ahead, despite the crisis and the deaths of our time, because the
majority of people try to do good in the family, in their workplace, in
public institutions, and continue to do it beyond everything. Evil and
sneaky people do exist, but much less than what the dominant culture tells us
every day because it sees the world wrongly.
Then we
see many business people who appreciate and respect their employees, and who, before considering
them as part of the overhead cost, they see them as the most valuable resources
and essential partners for the life and development of their business. And
we will see a lot of people who work well, because they are convinced that work
should be done well, firstly and independently from how much one earns, and
that therefore one works well even when one is not monitored, or punished or
praised.
As we
will see a lot of civil, social, ethical and just economy, that of communion,
which like salt gives flavour to the dough, and like leaven does not leave bread flat in our
markets. But in order to be able to see the good that already exists in civil
and economic life, we need to look at and think from the viewpoint of a culture
of resurrection, which knows how to see what today’s dying culture does not yet
see.
Today
there is great need for people who know how to see and indicate new signs of
life really present in our daily lives (if seen well), and not just imagined or dreamed. This
is a high form of high civic charity and, when it is missing, the world
becomes a sad and gray place. In the time of night, the sentinels of the
dawn are in fact needed, who announce the resurrection, that we all desire
but that we do not recognize because perhaps we do not listen attentively the
voice that is calling us by name in the gardens of our cities.
We need
Easter at work, an
epochal shift from work seen as a problem to work rediscovered as a
responsibility and a part of life. Human work in the last decades was
emarginated by an economic model centred on speculative financing, that
promoted wealth without work and workers, and which therefore imploded.
We will
never get out of this crisis without a resurrection of the world of work and of
workers. Above
all of young people, who have the right to a culture of life, of hope, of
trust: because, if there is no Easter for young people, there cannot be a true
Easter for anyone.
Luigino Bruni
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