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It is hereby provided that the following declaration of principles constitutes a public policy of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico:The advancement of science and its application through technology should be fully at the service of abolishing poverty in Puerto Rico.While on the one hand, technological advancement raises labor wages, improves the competing conditions of Puerto Rican products in foreign markets, tends to lower prices in the local market and steps up the general economic development, on the other hand, it tends to cause unemployment and human suffering among the workers left out of a job because of said advancement.Social responsibility compels us to simultaneously stimulate progress and attend to the human suffering which is temporarily one of its incidents in modern society. History —June 8, 1962, J.R. No. 51, § 1, eff. July 1, 1962.