• @Skullgrid
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    862 days ago

    Noooo heckin’ killing CEOs is violent and bad

    Then this fucking headline pops up.

    They’re basically crippling people, who could have at least some kind of limb use, by denying them limbs that THEY ALREADY PAID FOR AS PART OF INSURANCE PAYMENTS.

    • @rockSlayer
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      562 days ago

      This is exactly the type of shit that radicalizes people into violent action.

        • @Snowclone
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          92 days ago

          I’ve been in corporations being driven unto the ground to extract as much money as humanly possible in the shortest amount of time. They are sociopaths, they are physically incapable of stopping. They want ALL the money and they want it NOW. They can not help themselves, and they won’t stop unless they are forced to stop by regulations, you know, in a well regulated capitalist society that puts limits on greed that costs people’s lives or happiness on an undue scale. If you don’t have those regulations… we’ll that’s how you get a forced reset of the country by people who can’t manage to swallow that much bullshit

      • @Snowclone
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        102 days ago

        Violence is NEVER the answer! Can you imagine how horrible it would be if some degenerate insurance needer walked into a board meeting and pewpew’d all the poor shareholders? Who would make the hard decisions and demands that costs be dramatically cut and value dramatically increased? What if some horrible psychopath threw a maltov into an executive office? Or some villainous cloak and dagger type of scum rigged car bombs in some poor wealthy persons gated drive way? What would we do then! We’d live in terror of extracting value out of a system that is ment to provide service instead of just freely taking that value without consequences! Can’t you even image how bad that would be! Think of the CEOs people!

        • @JonsJavaM
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          102 days ago

          This comment was reported.

          I get the anger, and there’s no direct threat of violence, so I’m leaving it up.

    • @[email protected]
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      252 days ago

      Maybe you’re being a little unreasonable. Have you stopped to think about what the money might want? Maybe your money wants to be with the CEO without partaking in some nasty exchange of goods or services.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 days ago

        The money wants to be with the CEOs and thus have the chance to be spent on private jet rentals and lavish vacations in exotic places with influential people. It wants the chance to be spent on expensive tuition at old-money, name-brand universities and third and fourth homes in the country and on post-apocalypse survival compounds in expensive, English-speaking island nations. If you were a dollar, wouldn’t you want this too? Or would you want to spend your days going in and out of tills at Walmart and Dollar General or forked over to some prole delivery driver as a tip, a driver who’ll just spend you on fuel or fries at some greasy drive-up. Money wants to be free, free to live the good life, and to live it with the people who care about it more than anything else under the sun.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 days ago

          Or would you want to spend your days going in and out of tills at Walmart and Dollar General or forked over to some prole delivery driver as a tip, a driver who’ll just spend you on fuel or fries at some greasy drive-up.

          Holy shit, this part reminds me of constantly being taught to not give cash to homeless people because they’ll only spend it on alcohol or drugs.

          My mom recently saw me give $2 to a man at an intersection. It was a relatively cool day for this part of Texas at that time of year: mid-90s. She admonished me going on about how that guy was going to spend it on booze or drugs. I told her that very few people are homeless by choice and that he was just a guy trying to survive one more hot day. If my $2 bought him a bottle of water or a drug-assisted escape from reality, then it’s still making his day $2 better. Then I asked her how much drugs she thought $2 could purchase.