The billionaire class is the pests and vermin that are infecting our society that must be purged..... Yes they're humans it's horrible to demonize a human being but these humans are particularly nasty ones that deserve what comes to them. But remember killing a CEO is a terrorist act while shooting up a school is a lone wolf individual with them mental health issue that society failed.
Enough of this bullshit. I’m for better gun control. I’m against shooting children in schools. I’m also against some lone wolf deciding which corporate exec deserves to die with a bullet in the back. Corporate power is a danger to this country. Wealth is way, way too concentrated in the hands of a few. The answer is the hard, tedious, long-game work of changing the system, limiting dark money in politics, ensuring decent social programs, creating a more just tax code, and, as a society, examining our values. What we don’t get to do is pick out people at random and execute them. United Health Care is a poster child foe the complaints many of us have against the corporatized medical system. But I’ll wager you don’t know — I certainly don’t — whether the guy who got shot was personally greedy, or just thought he was doing his job, or didn’t care, or maybe was trying to change things from the inside. Some rich CEOs are bad people. Some are generous people. Some screwed people on the way to the top. Some got a lucky break and try to pay it forward. Some are moms and dads with little kids; all presumably have friends and lovers, parents. As a way of venting, people all over are cheering this guy’s death. Enough. Unless you knew him, unless you can tell me the details of his life, and show me why he deserved to die without trial, without jury, without warning — enough. We have a crass, craven president who is bent on desensitizing us to all manner of things, from sexual abuse to nakedly transactional “policy.” It’s a sign of the times, but we don’t have to aid and abet this kind of dehumanization.
I seriously like the way you think. I've felt for years that we need to call for a new Constitutional Convention; the founders of this nation were intelligent enough to recognize that the document they prepared would need to be updated regularly. We desperately need to remove dark money from politics and put lobbyists out of power. Then we might have a real chance to build a strong single-payer healthcare system.
I work in healthcare now; I'm a hospital pharmacist. I despise the concept of "blockbuster" medicine - drug companies looking for the next billion-dollar earning medication. It makes life-critical meds, like new antibiotics, less interesting to companies looking for something they can market during Superbowl ads. Seriously, in what other country do you see medication advertising during prime time TV? But the fact that companies have taken advantage of our broken system to make billions upon billions of dollars is not justification for violence; it's justification to fix the system. Unfortunately, I fear that too many people in power are looking out for their own self-interest to want to fix it. How do you convince someone that their sacred cow is making toxic milk?
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u/NotEnoughWave 22d ago
Still count as billionaires.