I’ll start by saying that I don’t disagree with you. Human lives are significantly more important than the dollar. I would also like more people to do things because it is the right thing rather than doing things for money. However, news stories will always be told from multiple angles, and there will be more angles with bigger events like these wars. It is unrealistic to expect people to only ever talk about the worst outcome of an event and turn a blind eye to relatively smaller bad outcomes.
This is also news that some people will want to know. You seem to be asking that this story not get written or discussed because there is human suffering involved, but is it not still newsworthy? If this same thing was happening during a time of world peace, do you think it should be written about? If you think it is something that could be reported on in a time of peace, why should it be ignored in a time of war?
You said in your comment, “But let’s talk about how this affects the power of the dollar instead because that’s SO MUCH more important.” Articles like these are not saying we should talk about the power of the dollar instead of human suffering; they are providing another angle to the conflicts. This article exists, but so do countless others that talk about the death and destruction of wars. It is not like this article somehow stops others that you care more about from existing. Also, while I can’t read the article due to the paywall, I have my doubts that they wrote about how devaluing the dollar is more important than the deaths.
You also ask who cares about the dollar, and the answer is a lot of people. Humans can have compassion for people that they have never met, but they also care about the people they personally know. Changes in the dollar affect people’s lives on a personal level. It’s a hard ask for people to ignore their own well-being or the well-being of their families for people they haven’t met.
Lastly, I think you yourself are making an argument for this article existing. You say that governments and other powerful people view things through the lens of their own wealth. Wouldn’t articles like this one push those people into action to stop conflicts? If they read about how their own money will be affected by war, they are more likely to push for an early end to wars. If they never know something is hurting their wallet, they are fine with it continuing. It is a nice idea that these people would just care about humanity over money, but it seems unlikely that change is coming any time soon. We might as well speak their language to try to stop the suffering.
Right now, I am reading Neuromancer by William Gibson (physical book) and Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky (e-book), as well as listening to Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (audiobook).
I haven’t gotten far enough into Neuromancer to form an opinion yet, but I’m enjoying the other two books. Children of Ruin is the second book in a series about future humans trying to speed up evolution on distant planets and dealing with the consequences thousands of years later. Alexander Hamilton is a biography on the US founding father from childhood until his death. It has a lot of interesting facts I never knew.
I have a hard time picking just one favorite of anything, but I think my favorite book might be World War Z by Max Brooks or Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
World War Z is a novel about a zombie apocalypse. It stands out from other books in the genre by having a frame narrative where a journalist is compiling a bunch of interviews with survivors telling their stories. Each chapter is its own short story with new characters from everywhere on the globe, and you get a lot of different perspectives this way. If you pick up the audiobook, each chapter is voiced by a different person, and there are some famous people lending their voices.
Annihilation is about a mysterious zone that appears in a remote wilderness. Things in the zone begin to act strangely and mutate into otherworldly objects. Over time, a government agency closes down the area and begins sending in expeditions to try to discover its secrets.