Blessed are the wealth-makers

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 @ 09:06

. . . for they shall shore up society. Hugh Rayment-Pickard wonders why church thinking is so muddled about commerce

In the UK, 23 million people work in the private sector. Retail alone provides 4.8 million jobs. Most of the nation's employees are engaged in a vast market enterprise, in which people create, make, and advertise products, buy and sell goods and services, pursue profits, raise capital, and seek to increase the value of their businesses.

For most people, "work" involves a more or less conscious effort to make money. This is how most people pay their rent and feed their ...

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