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Check your priors. What's your base rate likelihood for a person dying from: * suicide (many documented cases) * infectious diseases (ditto) * corporate assa

Check your priors. What's your base rate likelihood for a person dying from: * suicide (many documented cases) * infectious diseases (ditto) * corporate assassinations (zero cases in the US documented) Everyone thinking Boeing is carrying out killings that have minimal potential upside and massive downside is succumbing to some cloak and dagger deus ex machina. After age 40 people die from all sorts of causes. This is not about "courtesy," but rational thinking that there would be almost no point in killing an employee when the company is already mired in bad news and that corporate assassinations just don't happen in the US.

darth_avocado 2y ago
> corporate assassinations (zero cases in the US documented) That's the whole point of corporate assassinations isn't it, get rid of people without raising suspicions.
- ceejayoz 2y ago
  But the chances of them being both a) widespread and b) perfectly gotten away with is pretty slim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal doesn't inspire confidence in big corporate cospiracies, heh.
jjk166 2y ago
Zero documented cases of corporate assasinations in the US? https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/two-sentenced-their-roles-murder-man-who-blew-whistle-illegal-labor-conspiracy https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/two-sentenced-their-rol... Homicide is a top 10 leading cause of death for americans in their mid 40s.