Poor People Are Expendable
Our world treats many people with callous indifference
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The Throw Away People
In a disposable world, we eventually dispose of people.
Wealth and class disparity create an elite empire and an army of servants.
Our great resignation displays that workers who quit often get replaced by other workers. Corporations and big tech are increasingly mindless machines who surveil you and want your wallet, but also your body and soul.
Nations struggling against authoritarianism and corruption surge tides of people against other borders.
Farm workers drop dead from overheating.
Livelihoods are lost due to deforestation, pollution, disasters, or ‘what-have- you next, insanity planet’?
As there are eight billion of us, workers who are desperate enough will replace any thrown out. People even sell their sons, and more often, their daughters.
Am I hysterical?
This is a true concern that I have.
As the world heats up, famines dry up agriculture, floods overwhelm coastal lowlands, and general cascading upheaval brings on wars, people become statistics.
Climate injustice is real, and it depends upon cheap labor and disposable people and planet.
The pandemic shows that, just as with the climate crisis, people have maddeningly disproportionate experiences.
Add polarization, and it’s ever so historically plausible for some humans to be considered ‘less than’ humans.
Last week, Whoopi Goldberg misspoke. She sort of forgot that the Nazis called themselves the MASTER RACE.
It’s about race, yes. The human race. And, now, our race against time as the makers and the takers meet on the burning battlefield of a diminishing planet.