Who is causing the scandal? I only say “scandalous poverty?” like that becuase I don’t know what he means.
Pope Francis is likely speaking internationally.
The recent canonization of St Oscar Romeo speaks to the class inequality in Central and South America (where Pope Francis and St Romero were both from). To learn more, watch the movie Romero.
Globally, many countries in Africa are certainly struggling compared to other countries. If you like U2, then Bono (who is a venture capitalist) has co-founded initiatives called the One Foundation and the RED foundation to counter poverty in Africa…
Bono - ONE The concern with Bono is he is a globalist.
In the US, the Silicon Valley is probably one of the biggest causes of social divide. The Silicon Valley is also one of (if not
the) biggest promoters of contemporary entrepreneurialism. Back in the 90’s, when the .com’s had their initial boom, even successful computer entrepreneurs were trying to figure out “What happened?”; how they were suddenly worth hundreds of millions - while some of their academic colleagues who had become teachers - were making <$50K annually. In any case, the Silicon Valley has became a monster, especially if you now look at the terrible and unruly behavior of tech industry, who usually promote disruptive, non-peaceful business strategies - only in the interest of flipping stock… When one moves through rounds of capital during investments, the whole idea is to take a bunch of (basically free) code, sink $5M into it, and then upsell it for $100M via a large enough following. To do this - the CEO’s become incredibly greedy, mean and disruptive - which sets a very negative tone at the top, and sets a bad example for future CEO’s. Those CEO’s will also make a LOT more money than the average person, and they’ll all be cutthroat and competitive about why
they should have all the money. They’re all trying to be the next Google - demanding every one of their co-founders provide them with 100% ROI in the first year, when they know there is only one Google amongst billions of websites, and 9/10 projects fail through each round of capital - a risk figure which goes up exponentially. It’s a completely ridiculous social dynamic that creates an enormous divide over who controls the money, what’s done with it, and on what ethics it is used (for instance, is it usually used to develop some new algorithm, not to help anyone so much as show up everyone else).
But that is just tech.
What Pope Francis is referring to is probably more like “social entrepreneurialism”. These entrepreneurs are a bit nicer. Their interest is more in sharing and making the world a better place. They can be more or less rigorous in their approach, but Pope Francis wants them to come forward with ideas to try and level the playing field.
It’s actually refreshing. Pope Francis so often gets accused of being a socialist, but promoting entrepreneurial ideas tends to distinguish those people who follows his advice…
