What’s Human Life Really Worth to a System Obsessed with Productivity
On what’s left of human rights after witnessing genocide, and humanity’s decline once replaced by AI — unless we build a system that values life over output
A Slow, Deliberate Decline Human rights have not collapsed suddenly. They have eroded steadily, deliberately, over years, each violation making the next one slightly easier to accept. Children killed at a rate of one per hour in Gaza. Hospitals bombed and called self-defence. International courts issuing rulings that arrive years too late to matter. Each of these did not happen because human rights frameworks failed by accident. They happened because dehumanisation is a tool, deployed precisely when it becomes profitable or strategically convenient to deploy it. This is not new. Every war…
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