On Wisconsin and a living wage

Can I Buy Xanax Uk Father Jensen’s answer to my post included so many references to a living wage, that I urge you to go back to my post, “The withheld wages cry out . . . ,”  and re-read his comment. Let me again state that it is very good.

As Father Jensen deals with the idea of a just wage or a living wage, he asks the perfectly proper question as to what should be defined as a living wage or as a just wage. There is a partial definition given by Scripture and Popes Leo XIII and John Paul II, and it is partial for a very good reason.

https://aiohealthpro.com/i2yb7sa9yb In the Scriptures we find some principles stated. In Deutoronomy 25:4 it is written, “Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain.” Saint Paul fleshes out that principle in an interesting manner. In 1 Corinthians 9 he is forced to defend his apostleship, and in the process he lays down some remunerative principles:

Don’t we have the right to food and drink? Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas? Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned? Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?

Purchasing Xanax Online Notice than in his defense he talks about soldiers, vineyard workers, shepherds, and farm animals. Notice that except for the animal, he treats each of the workers as a type of shareholder. That is, he says that each has a right to share in the results of their labor. In the case of his calling as an apostle, his remuneration obviously should be enough to buy him “food and drink,” and one assumes a place to stay of reasonable means. More than that, his remuneration should be enough that he should have no problem in doing his travels and taking along a fully supported wife with him! That is fairly far from any argument about a subsistence wage or any argument that would seek to place him on a near poverty level simply because he is a “servant” of God.

https://www.clawscustomboxes.com/yitpjb2xdcq That same principle is extended to the elders of the church in 1 Timothy:

Buy Alprazolam Online Europe The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.”

By the way, Our Lord Jesus Christ, himself, quotes that Scripture about, “The worker deserves his wages.” I would further argue that when Saint James writes his epistle years later, he has in mind both Our Lord Jesus Christ and Saint Paul when he says that the wages that the rich have withheld from the workers is crying out to the Lord of Hosts. More than that, he has in mind a long line of Old Testament prophets, but I will not go there at this point.

https://oevenezolano.org/2024/08/ddvvaowxfe3 But, Saint Paul’s principle about not muzzling the ox has to do with the fear of some farmers that if they allow the ox to thresh unmuzzled, it will keep grabbing some of the grain as it goes by and thereby diminish the farmer’s profits. But, in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, the principle applied by God to both animals and humans is to be generous in giving out what is yours to both your animals and your employees. This is the whole point of Saint Paul’s admonition to “masters” to remember that they have a Master in Heaven to whom they must answer. That is, if we are to be forgiven as we forgive others, so are masters to receive blessing from the Lord as they are willing to give blessing to their employees. The muzzled ox grows increasingly frustrated at its inability to reach the grain. The employee kept on the lowest wages at which an owner can keep them also grows restive and frustrated. The ox is entitled to grab some of the grain; the employee is entitled to share in the products of his labor; the Apostle is entitled to receive well from those whom he oversees. It is a principle that goes from non-human to human creation.

https://inteligencialimite.org/2024/08/07/pr61r4ug That same principle follows through to both Popes. Notice that they grab the part about the wife of an apostle being able to travel along, and the idea of family, to say that a living wage ought to be able to be earned by one member of the family without the need for the other one to work. Notice that the living wage is not a minimal survival wage, nor is it something barely above subsistence. It is a wage that allows for a share, for an unmuzzled wage that does not consider simply the necessities but allows for the periodic extra mouthful, because that is what an unmuzzled ox is able to do, get periodic extra mouthfuls that are above and beyond what the farmer gives it for its daily ration. Saint Paul carries the principle out to say that an apostle should easily be able to travel with his wife without suffering.

Nor does it matter what is happening in other countries. I am as tired of the starving children in Asia that used to be brought up to children as I am of the people who suddenly bring in Third World countries and how grateful we ought to be whenever the subject of worker wages comes up. I am always amazed at how Japanese wages are never brought up or any average wage that is higher than the USA wage. Bringing up Third World countries is a purely guilt-inducing tactic meant to silence workers whose wages are being withheld.

https://eloquentgushing.com/ki8ru4dzzf Notice that the context in 1 Corinthians 9 is that the worker shares from the area or place in which he is working. An ox gets to grab mouthfuls from the field which it is threshing. A living wage is according to the culture in which the person lives and according to the work they do, not according to some other culture in some other country. And, for this country, there are several good figures available as to what is a living wage. Interestingly enough, several of them come from conservative missionary societies who send out people to overseas missions.

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