How We Pay Our Debt To Others In Our Work
Last time we saw how we have a duty to make our work and the fruits of our labor socially useful. In Working Your Way into Heaven , Cardinal Wyszynski explains this clearly. To summarize his thoughts again: ...we are all continually receiving help from others in the material goods produced by others, as well as the moral, cultural and even national legacy into which we are born. In the natural order o f things, the sacrifices of others benefit all our lives. In a real sense, we owe a debt to the others simply because of the fruits of their labor. We now look at some examples of how the existence of this debt might affect how we work each day. Let's first acknowledge that common sense tells us that a spirit of cooperation ideally plays a fundamental role in any healthy working environment. Sadly, some workplaces don't live up to the ideal. For example, in a company in which I once worked, one of my co-workers in sales consistently produced significantly more than t...