Drawing the Red Line: Why We Must Reject a System That Treats Us as Disposable

Gideon Adeyeni

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Across the world today, a dangerous consensus dominates political and economic decision-making: the belief that profit matters more than people, and that the lives of the majority are expendable in the pursuit of endless accumulation. Political and business elites — the 1% — have perfected a system that treats the rest of humanity, the 99%, as disposable. This disposability is no longer hidden. It is written into policies, budgets, and international agreements, and defended as “necessary reform” in elite spaces where ordinary people have no voice.

The recently concluded World Economic Forum in Davos once again laid bare this reality. As expected, political leaders, corporate executives, and billionaires gathered to express concern about global crises — climate collapse, inequality, war, hunger, and economic instability. The outcomes were not surprising. Once again, Davos produced eloquent speeches, carefully worded communiqués, and renewed commitments to “stakeholder capitalism,” sustainability, and inclusive growth. Yet beyond the rhetoric, nothing fundamentally changes. The same elites who claim to be solving the world’s problems continue to uphold and profit from an economic system that generates those crises in the first place.