This paper examines how profit-driven economic systems enact structural violence by systematically disabling life rather than enabling it. Drawing from Johan Galtung’s concept of structural violence, John McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology, and contemporary analyses of extractive capitalism, we explore how financial imperatives privilege accumulation over human and ecological flourishing. We show that this pattern constitutes not merely a moral failure but a structural betrayal of the living order, producing preventable death, disease, ecological breakdown, and systemic disempowerment. By making explicit the economic grammar of disabling life, we argue for a paradigm shift toward a regenerative, coherence-first economy aligned with the Primary Axiom of Value: that whatever enables life is good, whatever disables life is bad.
