It feels so strange and so heartbreaking to know that we have essentially monetized the very system that allowed humanity to evolve in the first place.
I remember being in an anthropology class, and how a professor mentioned a skeleton that had been found from before the start of human civilization. The person had clearly been missing their teeth for awhile before they died, which meant that they had survived because they were cared for by other people. My professor mentioned this as what he considered the key stage in human evolution and complexity. The ability and willingness to care for people is what allowed us to evolve.
In the US at least (and in other places) we've managed too monetize care, taking something that has been a part of human nature for so long and putting it behind a paywall. And sometimes I wonder what else this denial of essential human activities might do to us in the future.









