You’re life isn’t worth much.
That statement doesn’t reflect my personal beliefs, but rather the consensus of government and corporate leaders who have deemed your lack of value a liability.
If you don’t believe me, then read your city’s emergency plan. In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, George W. Bush mandated that all US communities receiving federal assistance – which pretty much includes all US cities and towns – prepare an emergency management report that includes a dollar value assessment of every person living within statistical communities.
After having read the reports, most people are appalled at how little value has been assigned to their lives and the lives of their family members. But that type of corporate indifference is to be expected under the guidelines of the “new normalcy;” primarily because the reality of living in a capitalistic society -- controlled by global financiers -- is pretty frightening. Compared to the size of the global economy, you and I are just mere specs of dust. Everything we treasure, from our children to our homes, has been measured in terms of dollars, and corporations are exploiting that information. And the only winners of that game will be an elite group of billionaires who control the bulk of our nation’s wealth.