Rome, June 24 (LaPresse) – What would you say to a young person who says: “I don’t want to live to work, I want to work to live”? Would that be in contrast with Article 1 of the Constitution? “There is no contradiction, because Article 1 does not invite people to live to work; on the contrary, that is precisely the condition that the Constitution removed and excluded: that of social classes destined to only work hard for the benefit of others who are entitled to a privileged life. This was effectively expressed by the constituent who drafted the final text of that article with these words: ‘by saying that the Republic is founded on work, it is excluded that it may be founded on privilege, hereditary nobility, or the labour of others.’” said President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in a video posted on social media, responding to some content creators from the editorial project ‘Geopop’. “The Constitution states that the Republic is founded on the dignity of work seen as a factor of liberation, of personal fulfilment, of contribution to common life. Rather, today there is a new risk emerging: that globally a society may develop in which wealth is concentrated in a few hundred hands and, on the other side, many millions of people depend on the commercial interests of these large financial actors. A vision of society that would deny the free and autonomous value of work. Work is a vehicle of well-being that includes other values: affection, friendship, culture, sport, socialisation, social or political engagement, the protection and promotion of health and the environment. This is in fact the fabric made up of the provisions we read in the articles of the Constitution, namely the full and free development of the human person,” added the Head of State.
Mattarella: “Charter based on dignity of work, the risk is a society where wealth is in few hands”
Rome, June 24 (LaPresse) – What would you say to a young person who says: “I don’t want to live to work, I want to work to live”? Would that be in contrast with Article 1 of the Constitution? “There is no contradiction, because Article 1 does not invite people to live to work; on the contrary, that is precisely the condition that the Constitution removed and excluded: that of social classes destined to only work hard for the benefit of others who are entitled to a privileged life. This was effectively expressed by the constituent who drafted the final text of that article with these words: ‘by saying that the Republic is founded on work, it is excluded that it may be founded on privilege, hereditary nobility, or the labour of others.’” said President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in a video posted on social media, responding to some content creators from the editorial project ‘Geopop’. “The Constitution states that the Republic is founded on the dignity of work seen as a factor of liberation, of personal fulfilment, of contribution to common life. Rather, today there is a new risk emerging: that globally a society may develop in which wealth is concentrated in a few hundred hands and, on the other side, many millions of people depend on the commercial interests of these large financial actors. A vision of society that would deny the free and autonomous value of work. Work is a vehicle of well-being that includes other values: affection, friendship, culture, sport, socialisation, social or political engagement, the protection and promotion of health and the environment. This is in fact the fabric made up of the provisions we read in the articles of the Constitution, namely the full and free development of the human person,” added the Head of State.
