Slaves to a diet of monotonous monoculture and constant poison, bird brain in the high tower kills entire colony-ontinents while trying to justify its incompetence as the natural order.
Totally. I live in a college town. I'm surrounded by mid-century-neoliberalism. There has developed a sizable unhoused population here, because of skyrocketing rents and the fact that there are actually a lot of us here who actually gives a shit and try to help. It's really pulled the mask off a lot of these folks.
There's no such thing as a right to a life without suffering. Needless suffering, maybe, but we all suffer in some form or another at some point in our lives.
How can you have the right to something that doesn't exist? Your right to life is the right to have an unnatural death investigated by the police. That is all.
While religion figures will often try their best to extract money, it's still "free to play", and I would say occupies mind rather than body.
I think for-profit healthcare is a better example in this case - literally charging you to keep your body alive (E: though capitalism a whole and its commodification of the things we all need to survive in addition to healthcare like water food and shelter would also qualify).
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