boingboing | The heroin epidemic in America has a death-toll comparable to the AIDS
epidemic at its peak, but this time, there's no movement coalescing to
argue for the lives of the economically sidelined, financially ruined
dying thousands -- while the AIDS epidemic affected a real community of
mutual support, the heroin epidemic specifically strikes down people
whose communities are already gone.
The Occupy movement rallied around the idea of the "precariat," the
downwardly mobile former members of the middle class who were one layoff
or shift-reduction away from economic ruination. Below the precariat is
the unnecessariat, people who are a liability to the modern economic
consensus, whom no corporation has any use for, except as a source of
revenue from predatory loans, government subsidized "training" programs,
and private prisons.
The precariat benefits from Obamacare, able to pay for coverage despite
pre-existing conditions; the unnecessariat suffers under Obamacare,
forced to pay into the system before going through the same medical
bankruptcies they'd have endured in order to get the coverage they need
to survive another day.
You're likely to be in the unnecessariat if you live in a county that
has high levels of addiction and suicide -- the same counties that poll
highest for Trump.
Corporations have realized humanity's long nightmare of a race of immortal, transhuman superbeings
who view us as their inconvenient gut-flora. The unnecessariat are an
expanding class, and if you're not in it yet, there's no reason to think
you won't land there tomorrow.
UNNECESSARIAT [Anne Amnesia/More Crows]
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