Human life is being devalued by the rich and powerful more and more every day it seems. The world is slowly shifting to a power structure to feeds the wealth of those that have and steps on those that don't.
It's not a far cry to see that people will end up being eliminated to "save money for more important things." Those things being profit of the corporations who really run this world.
I invention a day where people who become too ill to profit from fixing them, will just be put down. As well, if you can no longer contribute to the machine of wealth that the elite have created, off to the afterlife you go. You are of an age where you can't work well enough to feed the needs of the few, you get the needle. You are disabled, off you go to the next life.
It is just so darn easy to make people believe that horrible things are for their good, and not actually evil A.F. We are seeing this right now with the rounding up of brown people in the USA and their being sent to God knows where. Literally millions of people think this is somehow going to save them. The reality that some of the industry in the USA (including farming) relies on these workers to make a profit, or even stay functional, seems to be beyond the grasp of those who follow blindly.
When we take groups who are already marginalized and make them the enemy of the people, it is easy to step over the line into elimination of these people. It is an easy next step to what I've mentioned above after that. History is filled with examples of this - where people are seen as a determent to the people, just because they where told they are by someone in power.
It seems very easy to come into power by making people hate a minority group, or groups. It is also easy to change the system to stay in power with no limits after that, because the same dumb people will see only the need to be protected from the minority.
Let's get back to the rich and powerful manipulating the system. It has been forecast that eventually, the world will be run by a small number of very powerful people, and that humanity will be reduced to a manageable number of people in order for them to stay in power and in order for the system to work effectively. This is not a new idea, in fact it goes back many decades. Hell even past the 20th century back into older times, people saw that it may happen.
It may take some time for this to happen, but if humanity keeps on the path it's on, this is exactly what will happen. We will end up in a world where there are not many humans left, and the "workers" will be nothing more than a commodity for those in power. It's very easy to convince people this is for their own good. Hell we have people now thinking that loosing health care and benefits for the disabled is the best way to do things, and somehow this will make their lives better. A few more steps into the darkness and the world of Metropolis (1927) is a reality.
