Oh it’s most certainly a serious hazard, but the high def cross sections are a bit much. They could have chosen a bunch of ways to get the point across, but no, traumatic anal impalement (band name?) it is for LinkedIn!
This is something we really need to take on: not all value needs to be utility or monetary based. Things can have existential value, too.
Unfortunately we take the former approach with just about everything. We willingly tie our worth as a human to our work performance or some other ridiculous metric. You don’t have to be the paragon of project management, or a world famous influencer to be deemed worthy. You are worthy just because you exist.
Trees, frogs, and mosses all have inalienable rights to exist, too. Since they comprise the natural world, and actually perform functions to sustain said world, they have value. Moreso, I would argue, than an exemplar of project management, or bumping up a number on the NYSE. More value than the table we could make from the trees, or the extra bit of space we could use from destroying wetland (frog) habitat.
The year is 1325. Some Aztecs see a snake getting eaten by an eagle out on an island of a vast lake. They take this as a sign from the gods that they should build their city here.
2025: this once vast lake is now a metropolis with routine water shortages