This is great analysis. My opposition to using drugs follows that logic: by using them, you are implicitly supporting the predatory system.
Your mention of "market" in that way makes me think of viaticals[1], where the life insurance policies of people near death are bought for a profit. In a way, the people who now own the policies have an interest in the death of the other.
Your mention of "market" in that way makes me think of viaticals[1], where the life insurance policies of people near death are bought for a profit. In a way, the people who now own the policies have an interest in the death of the other.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viatical_settlement. A great book on this subject and how the prevalence of markets has degraded norms is What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel (http://www.amazon.com/What-Money-Cant-Buy-Markets/dp/0374203...).