In this second miniseries of Season 2, "Global Finance", we're wrestling with the strangeness of living in a world that aspires to a level of global integration our current systems can't support - and maybe don't want to. In this first episode, we "think slow" about the arbitrary and dehumanizing activity of putting a political price tag on life at all.
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