Iactant, quin immo, atque efferunt falsam eiusmodi formam, quasi ex ea orta fuerit in oeconomicis rebus progressio: qua quidem sicubi revera frui licet, id procul dubio aliis de causis evenit; ut ex impensiore efficiendarum rerum industria in eas regiones inducta, quae eiusdem expertes fuerint; ut ex ingentibus, quas natura gignit, opibus, nullo ad humanitatem respectu habito, quaestuosissime excultis; ut ex eo denique, quod operarii parva mercede ad gravissimos exantlandos labores dure crudeliterque adigantur.
This pseudo-ideal is even boastfully advanced as if it were responsible for a certain economic progress. As a matter of fact, when such progress is at all real, its true causes are quite different, as for instance the intensification of industrialism in countries which were formerly almost without it, the exploitation of immense natural resources, and the use of the most brutal methods to insure the achievement of gigantic projects with a minimum of expense.vatican.va vatican.va