Value Added

If we were a product and used the value added concept, does this mean we become more valuable by branding ourselves in a manner of the Kadashians? If we become billionaires, do we have more value? If we are famous as opera singers or movie stars, does our value as humans increase?

What about the unknowns who add value to others lives by volunteering to care for those who can't care for themselves; does that then make them more valuable?

I believe we have reached a point in time when humans are looked on as products and marketing them makes them more or less valuable.

It is a frightening concept. We must argue against it. We may do wonderful things in life, accomplish greatly, become sages for our era, but...but...we have intrinsic value as a human being with no one person more valuable than the other. Do not mix goods and services with human dignity. I give thanks today for all of you and your gifts to the universe.

K. B. Pellegrino