What’s your life worth?
Or, let’s phrase it as reader Amine replied to my last email:
“Regardless of my own opinions, I have other questions that are a bit scary also: How many killed people because of political decisions?
Health care, car accidents, insurance, unemployment help, lack of regulations, etc.
Is an assassination more important than another one because it’s more mediatized?”
(Shared with permission)
Those are tough questions to ponder and some that we love to avoid but should not.
When you start finding answers, you’ll learn a lot about yourself and realize that you should be wary of many companies and organizations.
And awareness leads to possibilities for navigating those issues.
If the political caste attacks Trump, a former US president, because he’s an outlier and does not abide by their “rules” and threatens their ways, then what will they do with you once you do not behave in the way they want?
Don’t think it is possible?
Think again.
It’s not so long ago you were chastised because you didn’t wear a mask, lost your job because you did not want to take their experimental drug, and got labeled as anti-whatever because you questioned their story.
Australia even got its own concentration camps, ahem, quarantine camps.
Or if you do not follow the lefts in the USA or Germany or even question those, you’re faster labeled a racist, extreme right-winged, Putin-lover, and whatever.
I’ve lost track of how many labels get thrown around nowadays; sometimes it feels a new one pops up every 5 minutes.
What’s your life worth to those?
And more importantly, how are you gonna deal with it?
But it’s not limited to the political field.
Plenty of Companies do not care about your life either.
“oops, we flushed some of our chemical waste into nearby rivers and lakes. Sorry,” after people died, got cancer or other health issues.
Put tons of pesticides on your food, known for causing cancer and other health issues.
Shredder waste into some pink goo, aka chicken nuggets, and people still eat it.
And kids are already conditioned to eat even if they see one making it, as Jamie Oliver did here.
Frankly, our lives aren’t worth anything to those.
Those kinds of companies only care about money and that your death and health issues can not be connected to their products.
I know that can be frustrating and depressing, so let’s give that a positive turn.
As with everything, we can learn from it.
For example, accept that your life isn’t worth anything in a public context, just your money counts. Nobody cares about you and your health and life.
Accepting it enables you to turn your skepticism on and keep it on.
Keeping that on helps you not fall for psychological traps, spot the lies, and ultimately give you the power to decide how you wanna act.
And act in ways that benefit you.