>The difference is that now the "menial" jobs are almost gone, and the higher up jobs are on the chopping block. And so the first to die off will be those without power (as usual). We can come up with all sorts of platitudes about the value of human life, but in the end it always comes down to this. Welcome to the true nature of man.

This sounds so damned edgy I'm left wondering if you just read Ayn Rand for the first time. Think things over before posting for the whole internet to see!