• orclev@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    He did face the consequences, but his fellow executives who were just as much to blame haven’t and likely never will. This isn’t a solution, but it is a warning sign that things are approaching a tipping point. Historically when things get this bad and the “peasants” start pulling out guillotines and scaffolds things have gone very badly for both the ruling class and many of the ones leading the executions, but in the wake of such things there is some improvement. This is a significant warning to politicians and lawmakers that if they don’t do something soon to address the rampant corporate greed and rapaciousness this sort of thing will start becoming more common and eventually the mob will be coming for them as well.

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      He did face the consequences

      No, he’s dead. He’s free from any prosecution, never having to answer for his actions, and all his money gets to stay in his family. Literally the easiest way out, and the only people who benefit from this are people who are already wealthy off of health insurance CEO money.

      This is a significant warning to politicians and lawmakers that if they don’t do something soon to address the rampant corporate greed and rapaciousness this sort of thing will start becoming more common and eventually the mob will be coming for them as well.

      No, it’s a warning to corpos to start hiring security. That’s the only change that will happen. They’re just going to make themselves harder to reach. Vigilantism rarely ever results in any meaningful change, and even more rarely does that change benefit the victims.

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        More security won’t save them. For a time it will stop these vigilante style attacks, but if that outlet is cut off eventually you’ll see large mobs leading the attacks instead and security won’t be able or willing to stop them.

        Death is the ultimate consequence. His family has kept the wealth for now, but if it gets bad enough that won’t last either.

        Your problem is you’re taking the principled stance of how a fair system should work, but we’re well past that point now. The system is broken and rigged. Desperate people when given the choice between lashing out randomly at those responsible or wasting time and energy playing rigged games that don’t achieve anything will opt to lash out even if it doesn’t accomplish much in the long term.

        Things are at their breaking point and it’s going to get messy. These sorts of things are just the first cracks along the stress points. If significant changes to reduce peoples frustrations aren’t made it will lead to significantly more violent events like this.

        The rich should be very scarred right now because there’s absolutely nothing more dangerous than a group of people backed into a corner and desperate.

        Should whoever did this have done this? No. But by the same token most people aren’t going to be particularly bothered by this either. A complete scumbag got murdered and considering the society we’re living in now that’s literally the only bad thing that could have happened to him. He was never in any danger of facing consequences from his actions through legal means.