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Allegory of Avarice

A Frog Sitting on Coins and Holding a Sphere; Allegory of Avarice by Jacob de Gheyn II
A Frog Sitting on Coins and Holding a Sphere; Allegory of Avarice by Jacob de Gheyn II

Who will you sacrifice for your comfortable life?

Whose pain and suffering is worth the extra square footage? Whose child should die so that you can go out to dinner? Your new car cost and arm and leg, but its not yours so who cares?

Go ahead and blame the system. You're just a cog in the infernal machine. You poor forgotten soul growing fat on the screams of the dying. How nice that you don't have to hear them when you're hidden behind a computer screen. You don't kill with bullets and blades, you're too much of a coward for that. No, you cut down millions with every curve of the graph. This is your world. A hell where profit versus loss means more than life versus death.

When you trap people in a system where they are devoured by a machine, do not be surprised when they cheer the demise of the operators.