On the Distinction Between a Statistic and a Tragedy

170,000
Compared to the wider economy here,
A few thousand plebs are the smallest of beer.
Just think of the profit we now stand to make
While having and eating and keeping our cake.

1
Another member of our club
Has been struck down, so let us blub;
We'll go on fighting for our druthers,
And never spare the cost to others.

Aleksandr Vissarionovich Ivanov