#NoLivesMatter
The problem with #BlackLivesMatter, #BlueLiveMatter, #AllLivesMatter, #WhiteLivesMatter, #AnimalLivesMatter and #LivesMatter is that they are all lies. In the prevailing economic system, #NoLivesMatter. #OnlyProfitsMatter.
In a system where people are reduced to being human resources and consumers, individuals are easily replaced like cogs in the industrial machine. A single person’s life is no more valuable than the insurance that will be paid out upon death or his or her current earning power. People, like fleshy robots, are only as valuable as their current production rate. When that drops, the person is moved to another job or fired. The quality of life is no concern to the system. The quantity of life is only a concern for as long as it is productive.
Cigarette companies have contingencies to replace their consumers who die through the correct use of their product. Pharmaceutical companies put a price on drugs to make a profit. Someone who cannot afford the medical treatment has no value, or a negative value, to those companies. Oil companies have already put a price on the health and well-being of people and animals in places like Valdez, Alaska, Salt Lake City and the Gulf of Mexico. To these companies, your life doesn’t matter. If robots could consume and pay for their consumption, companies would welcome the change because it is slightly easier to program robots than it is to program people.
Do not fool yourself into believing that any life matters. Unless you can boost the earnings of a large corporation or you make over $2 million a year, your life doesn’t matter. Until we as a nation can address the underlying belief prevalent within the system, no lives will ever matter. The good news is that #NoLivesMatter, so you are in good company. The bad news is that as long as we can be divided along simple color lines, we will never find a way to a time when lives will matter.
In a system where people are reduced to being human resources and consumers, individuals are easily replaced like cogs in the industrial machine. A single person’s life is no more valuable than the insurance that will be paid out upon death or his or her current earning power. People, like fleshy robots, are only as valuable as their current production rate. When that drops, the person is moved to another job or fired. The quality of life is no concern to the system. The quantity of life is only a concern for as long as it is productive.
Cigarette companies have contingencies to replace their consumers who die through the correct use of their product. Pharmaceutical companies put a price on drugs to make a profit. Someone who cannot afford the medical treatment has no value, or a negative value, to those companies. Oil companies have already put a price on the health and well-being of people and animals in places like Valdez, Alaska, Salt Lake City and the Gulf of Mexico. To these companies, your life doesn’t matter. If robots could consume and pay for their consumption, companies would welcome the change because it is slightly easier to program robots than it is to program people.
Do not fool yourself into believing that any life matters. Unless you can boost the earnings of a large corporation or you make over $2 million a year, your life doesn’t matter. Until we as a nation can address the underlying belief prevalent within the system, no lives will ever matter. The good news is that #NoLivesMatter, so you are in good company. The bad news is that as long as we can be divided along simple color lines, we will never find a way to a time when lives will matter.