Fear For Profit ( Archived) (32)

Well it's certainly 'food for thought'.

All the profit is lies in taking it on the chin at least in the near term. Yet if a pensioner on every street dies the collective weight of grief would cost us. No, the profit lies in taking it on the chin and not crying about your lost loved ones. Being old they would have died soon anyway is the mentality inclined to turn a profit where defending the elderly has wiped trillions off the markets.

Not to mention the chance of any future coronavirus being less considerate than this one. A coronavirus could do more than take out the burdens of society, chance is the reason covid-19 isn't as bad as the Spanish flu or the black death.

One look at through history is a warning to children of the golden age. You were born in the wake of brand new antibiotics, polio vaccines and first-rate healthcare systems I have to stress the luck involved in nothing bad ever happening. Nothing like this anyway.

And the problem with being doted on by fate is you don't really believe in bad luck. There's no such a thing as a mistake, only litigation. All the usual instances of misfortune are rebadged as where there's blame there's a claim. The golden age ends by becoming accustomed to it, the moment life is hard society bursts into pieces like a frog. Like commies in the 1990s.

Fear doesn't turn a profit. Trust and getting over yourself turn a profit, getting over your dead relatives turns a profit. Value all human life as less turns a profit because at the moment there's no way to compensate everyone in the same way you'd compensate one. If masses of people break their spines at work they don't all become millionaires. One person becomes a millionaire through personal injury claim at the expense of all the other workers. One life is valued at the expense of all others, if many get sick or injured you'd probably find your spine was worth about £5000. The great value of your personal compensation can only exist due to the rarity of tragedy in general. The compensation we expect for our suffering is massively over-valued and this is a real problem if fate stops being kind to you.

One of the reasons China has been able to tackle the spread is because they're not snowflakes. You see Chinese police dragging people by the scruff of their neck and then you see white people mewling about whether they'll get their booking fee back. What would we do if there was a war on?