ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the impact of extreme capitalism on soldiers, including the middle class and those just above and below, who make up approximately 90 percent of us, and who have become, as aptly expressed by Henry Giroux, increasingly disposable to the fortunate minority at the top of the wealth distribution. The chapter begins with stories from the past (the horrors of war), at a time when prospects may have seemed dim for a vulnerable class of people, yet were in reality teeming with hopefulness, as new technologies were beginning to create living-wage jobs, and as social dependencies were being strengthened in the waging or aftermath of war. It then presents the present stories regarding disposable victims of war. Those moments from the past are in stark contrast to the present day, in which technology generates low-income jobs, while globalization allows multinational companies to seek the cheapest labor in all corners of the world.
