[Alberta's Child]

In defense of the Pope, he was making this observation in the context of a factory building collapse that had killed hundreds of people.

In that case, it doesn't matter if they're getting paid $40/month or $40,000/month.

[trubolotta]

I don’t think anyone is trying to justify the death of 400 workers as the price of a free market. Between building codes, inspectors, architects, builder and the owner there is probably more than enough blame to go around but the does not lie in the wages, the free market or “globalism.” Why try to shift the blame to where it does not belong?

[C. Edmund Wright]

...and yet, he quickly started in about profits and wages......didn’t he?

Yep, he did. Thus, I acknowledge the Pope’s compassion for the collapse victims, but stand by my point that he is simply economically wrong on the other.