Value Life Over Profits

THIS!!!

And trolly company replies, "our service is necessary, we're allowed to keep running even when there are people on the tracks, even if there's no one in the car."

For more context and thoughts:

The cartoon is based on an old psychology experiment where a train (or trolly or whatever) comes to a split in the path. If it goes left, it kills 100 people who you've never met. If it goes right, it kills ten people you know. The experiment is to determine if you'd kill more strangers to save your own people. (Just to be difficult, there's a whole group of people that answer they'd throw themselves down so it would kill them and save everyone else.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

This cartoon is mocking companies who value profits over people (The Trolly Company), and the people who are okay with it (the guy at the switch).

It's not about an actual trolly. Or about actual life-sustaining businesses. It's about the places that have found legal loopholes to stay open, risking lives, when they could close.

My husband works for a company. The entire company is exempt, nationwide, from being shut down. He works in a warehouse that ONLY houses very expensive office furniture. They are open because 1) the company is exempt 2) Warehouses are exempt 3) Some high-end medical places have bought furniture in the past that was shipped from this location, therefore it's a medical necessity.

Have you ever been to a doctor and concluded, "if the chairs here don't cost more than $300 each, I will die"? Ever looked at the desk in a doctor's office and decided that if the doctor didn't spend at least $2000 on that desk, that you will drop dead? Not exam tables. Just the really nice stuff in the rooms where patients don't normally go.

No. Of course not. Because that's ridiculous. And if the world had to go on without new office furniture for two-weeks, no one would die.

But the world isn't going without it. And at least one co-worker of my husband's is in the hospital with the virus right now, fighting for his life. His life, which is worth LESS THAN SOME FANCY CHAIRS AND TABLES.

And that's why I shared this meme.

Actually, I could go on about the stupid job my mom is doing that is also labeled as "life-sustaining," which zero people would ever die from if someone didn't do it. Or the job my brother is doing, which could be life-sustaining because they could make medical equipment, but are they?

There are companies using legal loopholes. I think that's wrong.

Then there's Bath & Body Works who could stay open because they sell soap and sanitizer, but they closed and are paying their people because they care. <3 And that's the example that ought to be followed. Stay open only if you really are needed, not stay open because you found a loophole and can now risk lives.

As long as you value profits over the lives of people, you can find a loophole to stay open when you're not really life-sustaining. But good luck making money off the dead. And better luck taking that money with you to Hell.#FlattenTheCurve #COVIDー19

— JamieWriter (@PenMinion) March 23, 2020

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