Pope Francis said Thursday that the economic paradigm based on consumerism “is experiencing its last phase” and he ventured that it will be replaced by one founded on “inclusion, sobriety, care and well-being.”
“They have the right skills to work together to build that necessary bridge between the current economic paradigm, based on excessive consumption and which is experiencing its last phase, with the emerging paradigm, structured on inclusion, sobriety, care and well-being,” he told them. pontiff to a group of consultants from the firm Deloitte whom he received at the Vatican.
“During the last fifteen years, the world has gone through severe and continuous crises. It could not finish facing the financial crisis of 2007”
In a speech critical of the global economic situation, Francis lamented that “while a part of men and women improved their daily lives, another part suffered from unscrupulous elections becoming the main victims of a kind of counterdevelopment”.
“During the last fifteen years, the world has gone through severe and continuous crises. It could not finish facing the financial crisis of 2007 that we already had to face that of sovereign debt and real economies, then the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine with consequences and global threats,” he framed.
“What can the consultant do? decisions in this difficult and uncertain environment? You can do a lot. You can configure your analyzes and proposals according to a comprehensive look and vision: indeed, decent work for people, care for the common home, economic and social value, positive impact on communities are interconnected realities”, Jorge Bergoglio called.
“Today’s consultant, aware of his role, is called to propose and argue new directions for new challenges”
For Francisco, “today’s consultant, aware of his role, is called to propose and argue new directions for new challenges.”
“I would call this new generation of consultants integral consultants. These are experts and professionals who take into account the connections between problems and their respective solutions and who embrace the concept of relational anthropology: one that also helps man to recognize the validity of economic strategies that aim above all at the global quality of life. achieved before even more than the indiscriminate increase in profits, to a well-being that, if it wants to be, is always integral, of the whole man and of all men”, the Pope encouraged them.
Thus, it was clear when warning them that “no benefit is legitimate when the horizon of the integral promotion of the human person, of the universal destination of goods and of the preferential option for the poor”, in addition to “the care of our common home “.
