Jacob Ward
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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And at the time, what Leo the Thirteenth in the 19th century was saying was
We can't let these factories trick us into evaluating the the value of human beings by how much they can produce in a day.
And the Catholic teaching was
Imago Dei.
We are made in the image of God.
I'm not a religious person, but this is his argument.
Uh, you know, we're made in the image of God, and we have inherent dignity and value by that logic.
And that language made its way into the first and the first and and most influential arguments around uh a minimum wage and the idea of a weekend, and those ideas that came from.
From his argument about that.
And then into the New Deal.
Like, you know, there's a reason that FDR was sworn in by a Catholic priest was because that was the moral language of protecting people against this stuff.
And this guy, Pope Leo the Fourteenth, saying, same thing's happening here.
We can't let this thing
it you know, reduce the value of stuff to how much, you know, how efficient the production should be.
And I think in the creative fields that's gotta be that's gotta be true.
And and I will say this also leads me to the you you're saying like it's here, it can't change.
Uh you know, I would argue like the meta case is a really interesting
look at something that once upon time we would have said, Well, this is just how the way the world is.
And now judges and juries are saying, Oh, actually, no.
And we can change we can we can, you know, we're gonna we're gonna not allow you to just do whatever the market wants.
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