Work from Home: Work from Whom?

EDITOR’S CORNER

Lito Mendoza Velasco

He who works always works with a specific purpose and for a great cause that proceeds from the first principles or element of things we called urstoff or the unmoved mover. In the ancient world, people’s faith played a vital role in shaping life in preparation for their future, we called now -present era. However, at present, technology serves as an integral part in making the impossible possible, the unreachable reachable. In the same manner, technology causes to bring either closer or farther to each other. A form of communication wherein a long- lost friend can easily be found through the social media and can otherwise become worst enemy in the long run.

He who works always works in the service of other people’s businesses and even political party’s advocacy, platform, and philosophy. From whom a person’s identity and principle are compromised. Some may even work harder for the interest and welfare of significant others in the society. Working against the party’s policies and procedures would be tantamount to his termination from the party. He who works from home feels like an outcast in his own home. For the reason that whatever he does means no significant relationship in the description, definition, and essence of his own home. It seems to me that paid work being done alone and in silence can be considered as a modern form of slavery. In the olden days, forced labour was exercised by the landlord. Labourers used to be hit and hurt and obliged to finish their tasks with empty stomachs or even when they were sick. Nowadays, landlords spared the rods yet hitting their employees with the deadlines and failure to do so, would surely affect their job performance and salary deductions will be reflected on their monthly paycheque.

He who obeys God faithfully, prays fervently, and obeys Commandments conscientiously will be gifted with the greatness of heaven. It sounds like sanctioning his own freedom. Especially when he recites this phrase: “It is no longer I who live in me, but You live in me, Lord.” Truly believing and trusting in the invisible Almighty. Well, I don’t mean to corrupt everyone’s faith in here. I just like to contribute to the foundation of and clarification of one’s conviction and belief by logical inference and syllogism. To wit, St. Thomas of Aquinas used this argument to prove that there is an Ultimate Cause causing the series of causes in his famous argument: “Quid quid movetur ab allo movetur” - Whatever is moved is moved by another.” Hence, in the order or series of motion, this means that, when a particular thing is moved, there must be a mover, a mover that is not moved by another. But there is evidently a motion or movement in this world; then, there must be a mover; a mover that is not moved by another, we called this mover the Ultimate mover and the Uncaused cause.

He who believes that we all are brothers and sisters belonging in the same family in the community must also believe that he has the duty to dignify others in the society by selflessly following the dictate of Pure Reason.

As children, we have one Father from whom all good things come; As students, we have teachers from whom we learn good lessons; As business owners, we should sell commodities to sell rather than buying and selling people; As philanthropists, we should learn how to love people and use things, not use people and love things (John Powell); As politicians, we should work with the right people to form a good government and provide a good governance.