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Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @429bb265 Ins't, after all, capitalism about that? Reducing human beings to economic value?

Aside from that, the statement is brutal because while most people don't realise the previous fact about capitalism, he does and is okey with it.
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Bruce Heerssen | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @718b8fcf @429bb265 
If you accept the premise just for argument's sake, he is still wrong. At 26 years old, that woman had many years of productive potential ahead of her. To claim she had no economic value is simply wrong. And monstrous, of course. Nobody should be reduced to their supposed economic value.