What on earth is this comment. Where do you live in “the west”? Western societies are structured around redistribution which ensures that most people are looked after (nothing is perfect). Your rhetoric is baffling.
As a child people had enough money for a good end of life and now they crawl around and collect food and other stuff from waste containers.
Also statistics clearly shows this development. Look at stuff like this (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/world-26-ri...) and tell me what you think about that please.
What's baffling about that, can you further explain it to me?
> Western societies are structured around redistribution which ensures that most people are looked after
Do you live in Disneyland?
Where do you meet people who argue for that? I Have never heard that outside of (very) dystopian novels.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-containment-plan/
That's a top city in one of the most powerful / rich country in the world, you don't have to look very far to find other examples.
But still, are people talking about mercy killing all of them? I might have to reclassify the meaning of dystopian, the books I read are only half as messed up as this..
Seems some of them live in a dome where you can't see all of this development. Nice for them - I could cry sometimes because it's so unfair.
First link search turned up: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/richard-nixon-ubi-basic-i...
OUR SYSTEM doesn't care how happy you are, as long as you're productive enough for some people to get rich.
No one cares if you have a job, if you are homeless or have to suffer poverty.
OUR SOCIETY values power and wealth (at least here in the west, I heard about other countries who don't do this so dedicated). If you're poor, sick or have no job than there is even people who'd argue for mercy killing you as not being strong enough for our good society.
I think the report about this experiment shows how far away we moved from humanity.