I hate how the last quoted sentence phrases people as “customers” rather than people…
“Unique evil” is also ironic…we’re surrounded by unique evil in so many directions, and compared to every other civilized country, yes, this system is uniquely evil. It’s the banality of evil Hannah Arendt described.
Which is more barbaric: a lone vigilante killing 1 human or a system which kills roughly 70 people per day due to lack of care? If we had a serial killer who took 70 lives every day, would the news be trained on them?
A single death is a tragedy. Multiple deaths is “business as usual” in America. We’ve lost our humanity.