What is the driving force of current forms of globalization?
(6) As Pax Christi USA examines the current forms and direction of globalization we note that the values which often guide the process of globalization are the search for economic profit as the highest human goal and the primary definition of humans as consumers and producers. While profit is a proper goal of economic activity, Catholic Social Teaching makes it clear that it cannot be the highest goal. We believe that to value human beings primarily in the light of how much they consume or produce represents an unacceptable diminishment of the human person. In their economic pastoral, the U.S. Catholic bishops state clearly, “Decisions must be judged in light of what they do for the poor, what they do to the poor, and what they enable the poor to do for themselves. The fundamental moral criterion for all economic decisions, policies, and institutions is this: They must be at the service of all people, especially the poor.” (7) In addition to valuing people according to their economic s
