Reply #5: In the Catholic calendar...

[Davis_X_Machina]

....it is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker.

Pray for all those who have been killed, mained or injured on the job in the last year, victims of the greed and or stupidity of their fellow men.

But above all we must remember the priority of labor over capital: labor is the cause of production; capital, or the means of production, is its mere instrument or tool.
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Yet the workers' rights cannot be doomed to be the mere result of economic systems aimed at maximum profits.
The thing that must shape the whole economy is respect for the workers' rights within each country and all through the world's economy.
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A just wage is a concrete measure -and in a sense the key one- of the justice of a system.
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The means of production cannot become a separate property, called capital, as opposed to labor.
They cannot be owned against labor or to exploit labor.
They cannot be owned just for the sake of owning them.
The only title to their ownership - whether private, public, or collective- is that they serve labor.
This means that under suitable conditions the socialization of certain means of production could be acceptable.

John Paul II, Laborem Exercens