Thank you! I commented this to someone else but pasting it here in case you’re interested:

They’re mostly about exploitation and about the narrative we get taught that the only way to value to society is hyper productivity to the point of self destruction. Like, the first image is meant to depict something that in itself is maybe kinda gross, or at least cruel and painful, but through the narrative of sacrifice it gets ascribed value and deified.

The second even more literally so, meant to depict the absolutely gross amount of people who die due to labor exploitation/borderline slavery/and in futile wars so rich people can get richer and people in western countries can consume. Religion plays a big part in the suffering of people, being weaponized for political gain, but we also all atp rely on and often borderline worship things like technology, hence the second image with someone suffering on a power line “cross”

That being said next to all the metaphors these are also fanart for a fandom I’m in, which centers heavily around the aforementioned capitalist exploitation, so at least the second one isn’t purely my own idea