Network States

I am sorry to be the one to break it to you, but if you do not believe that profit = common good, you are either an arrogant brat, a socialist or, most probably, both.

Healthy tech Pyrrhonist. Maker of arbtr.com. Écoconceptionsplainer.

on the contrary! I am a devote Christian, but my faith compels me to give people freedom of choice, as the creator did, rather than pre-determining what they should want —even in cases where I am convinced I know better.

This is news to me. But I am not Catholic but Protestant. 

We Protestants have a differing view on the role of the market and materiality, to start with. In the Calvinistic tradition, for example, the market place is the platform where you can display your pious lifestyle as hint to your status of salvation, not through (exhuberant) consumption but through productive efforts and the (generous) re-investment of the surplus you generate. You could say that Protestants believe in the redemption of time/money/anything material by dedication to a greater purpose. 

The studies of Max Weber on modern capitalism and the protestant ethic is one of the seminal and grounding/founding works of empirical sociology. 

It would not surprise me, though, if Catholics would, then, try to differ from a Protestant point of view. 😆