Compulsory

(Oh the irony - I just got a “Prove you are not a Robot” box when I tried to post this).

A very thought provoking short story about money and profit taking over all things so that cost-assessments need to be performed even on human life. Most people would say that you can't put a value on human life, yet we live on a planet on which people need to actually pay money for health care - ie. to stay alive.