We Wish to Inform You That Your Death Is Highly Profitable

To Trump, our illnesses and deaths are a necessary cost of doing business

Douglas Rushkoff
GEN
Published in
6 min readMar 25, 2020

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Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on March 21, 2020.
Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

HHave you heard the good news? Donald Trump is suggesting our freeze on businesses as a measure to curb coronavirus may end as soon as Monday. Yes, allowing people to go back to work could lead to more widespread infection, but the deaths of a…

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Douglas Rushkoff
GEN
Writer for

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm