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Calling insurance healthcare is journalistic malpractice. Get better at your craft or get shit on.

Everyone says this but I disagree. I'm sure Musk and many other public figures are emperors without clothes or whatever. But this idea that most execs are this other species blind to the muck under their boot.. but most people are normal people... They may be mean, evil, mentally ill. But they don't party in the front train car with no idea about the insect bars in the back. They're just selfish and don't care. They're well aware. Don't give them credit for ignorance by delusion. It's malice. I make business decisions. I make them in partnership with colleagues. Some are kind. Some are dicks. But they're intelligent enough to know what decision they're making. And this transcends boxes. Even some of the most compassionate and empathetic human centric people I've ever worked with, proven in actions, not words, are repeat Trump voters. Having said that, most verticals of business are like elected office in that a certain type of person is going to win and get to the top. Oil tycoons know they're burning the earth for personal gain. Non profit exec takes a big slice of pie, understanding the bookkeeping. They both just believe they should have it. Maybe not even deserve. Many leaders feel ordained to retroactively validate vile means to ends. "I'm on top, so I'm supposed to be on top. I see I stepped on people but that's okay, because I'm supposed to be on top." I know wealthy people too and it's nearly the same. They're on earth. They see what's up. Many of them are in your office but just don't mention cotillion or junior league. Some are kind, some are assholes. Just like all people.

Much like how DC politicians live in a bubble where they think everyone in the US has grocery options and plentiful healthcare (due to how business around DC structures these things so those "leaders" just assume all of the US is like DC), the C suite lives in a tone-deaf rich-person bubble with zero comprehension about what it is like to actually live in the shitty world they orchestrate and manipulate.

Reading some guff about the Kroger-Albertsons attempted merger was case in point. These corpos said: "Oh, if we don't merge, we can't compete against Walmart and Amazon, and we'll have to close stores." Like, no? What business goes, "hey, so we can't compete with adjacent-market companies, time to close up the places that generate our revenue!"

Or the recent Congressional vote to spend THREE BILLION OF OUR DOLLARS paying telecom companies to remove Chinese hardware from their networks. Something they were told to do years ago. The same carriers that will continue to raise our service rates every few months are making us (via Congress) pay them OUR money to do what they should have done themselves years ago.

None of these morons get it, they just keep corrupting their way to profits off of our backs, while digging out the ground we stand on from underneath us.

Are we not?

I am.

this is good more of this please

Wow, I really feel like I should be clutching my pearls over the fact that this is what it's come to.

On the other hand...

Just like cops, these folks have earned every bit of hatred coming to them from the public. Even now they continue to pad their own bank account at a staggering rate on the deaths and misery of their fellow man.

If I were a healthcare executive with a conscience (lol I know), or even a healthcare executive with an adequate fear response, I'd resign tomorrow. (Or maybe yesterday?) I guarantee any of these folks has enough wealth to exceed the typical US lifestyle for the rest of their natural lives without having to take any more money for denying care to their fellow citizens. They can pack their shit, never work another day, and still spend the rest of their lives with less stress and greater financial security than my family ever will. There's literally nothing stopping them.

And if their "Type A" personality just can't let them spend multiple decades of their lives just relaxing with their family and enriching their inner self, they have a great resume to get a job at an industry that doesn't profit from the death and pain of their fellow citizens.

Ha! They'll take it from the workers AND raise the prices of whatever products they're selling then pass the cost onto us for a tidy bit of extra profit. The leeches have to suck as much blood out of us as possible.

The CEO was on his way to implement policies that would kill thousands of people, and injure tens of thousands.

I see no moral gray area.

Legally, the murder was wrong. Full stop.

True but this was self defense. I don't see murder. Murder is the terminology of the regime who is trying to pin some crime on him that I don't see.

This is exactly my thought. C-levels are going to want competent security and not Rent A Cops, which costs. Companies which provide those services already charge a decent chunk of change for it, and the rates will likely go through the roof now. Additionally, I think they'll find that these "security consultants" will suggest absolutely unacceptable lifestyle changes for them to minimize areas of concern. Much easier to secure a house than a whole nightclub, or golf course.

Right? No introspection at all. I doubt the C-suite of Patagonia sees a need to increase security.

The revolution will not be televised

If somebody's got the itch and just has to go shoot up something this is a way, way better thing to copycat than school shooters.

There's a lot of angry lonely men out there.

If there's anything that will motivate someone to kill it's the potential that women might give them attention.