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>One less psychopath in charge of a US health care provider being around? What kind of broken logic is this? What good did this do for you if the end result fo
by joe_mamba 4mo ago
>One less psychopath in charge of a US health care provider being around?
What kind of broken logic is this? What good did this do for you if the end result for you is the same or worse now? Other than feel good for vigilante vengeance than then backfires on you in the end. It's not like there's a shortage of CEOs to take his place and keep doing the same thing.
You're not in a comic book movie where if you kill the main "bad guy" then society magically fixes itself at the end, because there is no main villain here, society is broken not because of the decisions of one CEO, but because of a combination of decisions of thousands of people, factors and incentives accumulated over decades that lead to healthcare and other things sucking, and you don't fix it overnight by killing one guy, you instead just make it worse for everyone else who isn't a murderer.
You fix it by talking, campaigning, gathering people and voting, knowing that it will also take decades to undo, the same way as it took decades to get to this stage. That's the only way you enact change that will will guarantee bi-partisan buy-in and actually stick around for the long term. Policy changes implemented by populist movements under threat of violence rarely produce good outcomes that last.
- justinclift 4mo ago> What kind of broken logic is this? It's not even slightly broken. It's about the people responsible for destroying the lives of those they're supposed to be helping, instead abusing those people for personal gain. Is that really something you think should keep heading in the same abusive direction it's been going for many years? :(
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- joe_mamba 4mo agoMy biggest wish in life would be that every champagne socialist that unironically says "America is a third world country", we just send them to an actual thirld world country like Zimbabwe, Congo, Sudan, Cuba, North Korea and import a genuine refugee from there in their place. This way we can make two people happy at the same time(three if you include me), and the lottery of birth advantage evens out, so the world becomes more fair and less unequal.
- calgoo 4mo agoSorry the justice system is setup to protect them, not you. By putting fear in the leaders of these companies, and showing people that yes, you CAN actually stand up to their corrupt ways and beat them because in the end they are just people, even if they don't see you that way.
- joe_mamba 4mo ago>By putting fear in the leaders of these companies I'm sure people who control the economy, pahrma, law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies are shivering because of fear from people with glocks.
- wqaatwt 4mo agoHistorically indiscriminate extra judicial murder has never worked as a tool for addressing societal injustice, it has been tried countless times, usually it just made things worse.
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- catlifeonmars 4mo ago> You think you want that but you don't actually. IF you do sincerely want that, then I sincerely hope you get what you want, but both ways for you and only you, while the rest of us stay isolated as spectators. Nobody wants this. This is the result of the breakdown of trust in the judicial and democratic processes. GP is just acting the zeitgeist.
- s1artibartfast 4mo agoIt seems like people are happy to dish out this rhetoric applied to others but less happy to be on the receiving end. How do you feel volunteer groups rounding up Luigi supporters and gunning them down in the street like dogs? There are a million reasons why we don't want to live in a society where each person tries to solve their political grievances with a gun
- joe_mamba 4mo ago>There are a million reasons why we don't want to live in a society where each person tries to solve their political grievances with a gun You and me are preaching to the quire here and wasting our time. Some on HN they just wanna see rich people get killed, as if that fixes anything that's wrong with society. By rich people, they mean everyone richer than them of course.
- DrSiemer 4mo agoIf the system is rigged heavily against you, relying on it to affect change does feel like a losing strategy. The fact that such a large part of the population supports literal murder could also be considered a political statement. One that would not have been expressed so strongly without what happened. So much of this madness could be resolved with a simple income cap. Musk’s wealth grew by $1 million per minute over the past year. Who can seriously argue that this is fair and balanced?
- Mainan_Tagonist 4mo agoAre you talking about income or actual wealth? Your income may remain constant while your wealth rises significantly (say... because your investments are doing well, because you inherited... etc). The two are often confused when talking about (tech) billionaires.
- DrSiemer 4mo agoWealth, not income. The statistic is about net worth growth. Saying "that's wealth, not income" doesn't refute it. It just clarifies the mechanism.
- justinclift 4mo ago> So much of this madness could be resolved with a simple income cap. The problem (to me) is less the "wealth" of these psychopath CEOs, and more that they're literally taking advantage of the people they're supposed to be helping, for their own benefit. The concept of an income cap might fix that in some situations, but I'm unsure how complete a fix that would be.