• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    56 hours ago

    The question of ‘how many people must die before we change things?’ is not answerable. Sometimes, the fact that people are dying is - it seems - massively preferable to the difficult work of making a change, especially one that might reduce profits slightly.

    “After all, people can go die quietly where I don’t hear about them, but I look at my bank account every day!”

    • @snekerpimp
      link
      25 hours ago

      Or might be “So what if a few die, there’s millions more where they came from. Hopefully they die within a year so we don’t have to give out raises and can hire the new people at less than minimum wage.”

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        05 hours ago

        I do think that those with power see those without power as an inexhaustible resource, and one to be taken for granted. How shocked they will be when the change they make on the world, in the name of profit, causes that resource to dwindle.

  • Flying Squid
    link
    36 hours ago

    Deaths aren’t inevitable, researchers say

    “They reduce overhead,” the C-suite says.