The New Republic | Pope Leo’s Vital Message About Work in the Age of AI by Timothy Noah

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Timothy Noah’s article highlights Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, which re‑asserts the “dignity of labor” as essential to human identity at a time when AI and billionaire technocrats—exemplified by Elon Musk’s vision of a work‑free future—are promoting the elimination of many jobs as a societal boon. Noah explains that, for the pope, work is more than a means of subsistence; it shapes personal development, community contribution, and cultural vitality, and its removal would cause “anthropological regression” and deepen social inequality. He situates the pope’s message within a broader historical tradition, citing Keynes’s early‑20th‑century prediction of leisure, past papal teachings on labor, and civil‑rights rhetoric from figures like Martin Luther King Jr., while warning that without a renewed respect for labor’s dignity, AI‑driven profit concentration will exacerbate poverty and undermine social peace.

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John D. Rockefeller: Magnate Empresarial Americano

John D. Rockefeller fue uno de los estadounidenses más ricos de todos los tiempos, dejando una marca indeleble en el paisaje industrial y filantrópico del país. Nacido el 8 de julio de 1839 en Richford, Nueva York, la vida de Rockefeller fue un testimonio de su inquebrantable dedicación a los negocios y la filantrop…

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Difficulties to be overcome

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life. I shall never cease to be grateful for three and half years of apprenticeship and the difficulties to be overcome, all along the way.

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Vergoldetes Zeitalter:

„Geplant sei quasi eine Art Rückkehr zum „vergoldeten Zeitalter“ nach dem US-Bürgerkrieg – also von 1865 bis Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mark Twain wollte mit „vergoldet“ statt „golden“ zum Ausdruck bringen, dass es zwar einen enormen Aufschwung gab, große Teile der arbeitenden Bevölkerung daran aber nicht teil hatten und oft in elenden Verhältnissen lebten. Von der damaligen rasanten Industrialisierung profitierten vor allem Großindustrielle wie Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan und John D. Rockefeller. Diese „Räuberbarone“ genannten Unternehmer akkumulierten enormes Vermögen – durch Monopole, Zölle und einen schwachen Staat, dem sie quasi ihnen genehme Gesetze diktierten.“

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John D. Rockefeller, nacido en 1839, fundó la Standard Oil en 1870 y controló el 90% del mercado petrolero, convirtiéndose en el primer multimillonario moderno. A pesar de las críticas por sus tácticas monopolísticas, fue un destacado filántropo, donando gran parte de su fortuna a la educación y la salud, y fundando instituciones importantes como la Universidad de Chicago.

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I'm looking for a man in ✨ the Gilded Age ✨

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John D. Rockefeller is captured gifting a 5-cent coin to a child on his 84th birthday in 1929. 🎂👶

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If you find the word "antitrust" has a dusty, old-fashioned feel, that's only to be expected - after all, the word has its origins in the late 19th century, when the first billionaire was created: #JohnDRockefeller, who formed a "trust" with his oil industry competitors, through which they all agreed to stop competing with one another so they could concentrate on extracting more from their workers and their customers.

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How Regulation Came to Be: Monongah Mine Explosion (23d in series)

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