> we don’t really care about the human cost Humanity risks a global return to a state of gleeful cruelty. "Lupus est homo homini". [1] The well-being of peopl

> we don’t really care about the human cost Humanity risks a global return to a state of gleeful cruelty. "Lupus est homo homini". [1] The well-being of people is a characteristic of successful society. And labour is fundamentally valuable. For those who seek economic pre-eminence, it makes perfect sense to invest in the people doing the work. However, there are narrow-minded groups and individuals who see another equation: put workers in an exploitable condition and keep them in such condition over generations. Wars have been fought to preserve the investment in maintaining such conditions. Labour is valuable, but the individual cost in human life is usually dismissed through demagogy and populism. We had broken the historical cycle of misery, but we now risk the achievements of our civilisation. [1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_homini_lupus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_homini_lupus