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성경에 참으로 다양한 말씀이 나온다. 정말 성경 같은 책은 그간 내가 읽어본 책 중에 없다. 많은 인사이트를 준다. 특히 정치하는 데는 더욱 그렇다.
마태복음에서 예수님은 한 지주의 예를 들어 아침 일찍 와서 일한 사람이나 오후에 일이 끝날 때쯤 온 노동자에게나 같은 임금을 지불해주는 일을 말씀하신다.
그러니 일찍 와서 일한 사람이 화를 낸다. 그러자 그 주인은 그 사람에게 주기로 한 임금을 주는 것은 지켜졌고, 관용을 베풀어서 늦게 온 사람에게도 같은 임금을 지급해주는데 무엇이 문제될 것이 있느냐고 한다. 질투 시기하지 말라 한다.
이 주인은 포도원을 경영하는 이유가 잉여가치의 착취에 있지 않고 고용 확대에 있으며, 임금 지불에 있어서도 일한 만큼이 아니라 노동자에게 필요한 만큼 지불한다.
시간제로 임금을 지불한 것이 아니라, 그날 먹고 살 만큼을 지불한다. 이 사람은 일거리를 찾기 위해 하루 종일 기다렸다.
기간제 교사 정규직화를 두고 반대하는 사람들이 참고할 만하다.
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
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