I can’t wrap my head around an economy where nursing homes cost enough to bankrupt families, yet the aides caring for our grandparents still rely on food banks. Or where daycare can consume an entire parent’s paycheck, while the people providing that care still can’t earn a living wage and need a second job. Something about that math just doesn’t add up.
Modern logistics creates moral distance. The buyer sees a clean product and a convenient price. The extraction, exhaustion, pollution and waste occur elsewhere. The system does not remove harm. It reorganises visibility so consumption can remain psychologically comfortable.