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![From Pope Leo's encyclical:
95. As it is, “the current model, with its emphasis on success and self-reliance, does not appear to favor an investment in efforts to help the slow, the weak or the less talented to find opportunities in life.”[100] The same questions keep coming back to us. Does this mean that the less gifted are nothuman beings? Or that the weak do not have the same dignity as ourselves? Are those born with feweropportunities of lesser value as human beings? Should they limit themselves merely to surviving?The worth of our societies, and our own future, depends on the answers we give to these questions.Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity or we fall into a cesspool. Unless we stop and takethis matter seriously, we will continue, openly or surreptitiously, “to legitimize the present model ofdistribution, where a minority believes that it has the right to consume in a way which can never beuniversalized, since the planet could not even contain the waste products of such consumption.”[101]96. One structural issue that cannot realistically be resolved from above and needs to be addressed asquickly as possible has to do with the locations, neighborhoods, homes and cities where the poor liveand spend their time. All of us appreciate the beauty of “those cities which overcome paralyzingmistrust, integrate those who are different and make this very integration a new factor ofdevelopment! How attractive are those cities which, even in their architectural design, are full ofspaces which connect, relate and favor the recognition of others!”[102] Yet, at the same time, “we cannot fail to consider the effects on people’s lives of environmental deterioration, current models of development and the throwaway culture.”[103] For “the deterioration of the environment and of](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgmxlsqaj6inwjqx3eowix6i/bafkreidaombeevqnxvtaxgecnremb3jrqsn6plic5zzucckvsgiojuk6ve@jpeg)
