The Problem of Indifference | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: All too many Catholics, especially of the conservative variety, see care for the poor as enabling their poverty. In reality, allowing some of the poor to stay out of the workforce is a good thing, because it forces those who would employ the rest to pay higher wages - which is why the GOP is so fond of promoting the idea that people in need of relief are lazy.
In truth, it is the rest of us who are lazy. If all meat packing plants were unionized, the price may or may not go up, but the profits would go down. If immigration reform happened, it would be harder to bring in workers that would work in the shadows of such factories, who are deported if they complain about the working conditions, wages or the lack of a union. The same is true of peonage in the orange fields. Indeed, most of what we eat is picked or packaged by people with few options - including the option to leave without the sheriff returning the worker to his owner. To all of that, we are indifferent - profoundly so. Enjoy your breakfast.
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