Oh no! I really hope this doesn’t start happening to all of the CEOs and board members that make a profit off of legally killing people…
Uno what really happened
Submitted 5 months ago by Greg@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 months ago
kautau@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The thing that is entirely possible coming out of this is a boon for PMC companies getting hired for far more visible corporate security. Hotels and roads shut down for CEOs as if they are heads of state. I guess it was inevitable and cyberpunk really is just life imitating art
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
– Network (1976)
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s unfortunate this is the reality that people are living with. Events like this will become more frequent if the billionaire class doesn’t do something about it.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oh no. I hope they don’t keep getting submarined!
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In today’s world people should be afraid to flaunt their wealth, pursue these big positions. There’s so much inequality, I wouldn’t want to be the one to have all the goods. I dont condone murdering people for it, we should eat them instead.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
i wonder how much survivorship bias there is in this
RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What is it exactly you think “eat the rich” means?
deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
They’ll do something about it alright, like further militarization of the police, increased government latitude to spy on civilians, and restrictions of what kinds of weapons were permitted to own.
kautau@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah this is just the precursor to cyberpunk (both the genre and the franchise) where corporate CEOs move with militarized armed escorts and have free reign to control areas and traffic where they see fit
Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s like a textbook example of justice being served one way or the other, if not in orderly respectable fashion then in an abrupt violent fashion.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Society failed them both.
I’d say society did pretty well by the CEO. It was unrelenting greed and placing profits over people that got him to his end. That’s on him.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think they mean that society, in its money worship, failed the guy killed. He obviously valued money over lives and he learned that somewhere.
kautau@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As an aside I would say capitalism failed them. Society has existed and failed and evolved since people realized it was beneficial to work together. But that basic byline has always existed with those exploiting others. Roman society failed, feudal society failed, the first version of the US failed as a society, so on and so forth. In this lens, the version of society that failed is capitalism, or probably in this case late-stage capitalism
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Life denied due to preexisting case of terminal Affuenza
- stolen from another lemmy
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 months ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 months ago
[deleted]DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lemme just empty my bank account for you 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I wonder if this will spark anything?
Shadywack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
XD omg
Someone show this to the /c/news mods, hahahahahahaha
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
🍽
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 5 months ago
I feel like the text should be flipped lol
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This guy was a professional. You think he was an angry citizen?
Of Russia maybe.
External force trying to light the powder keg.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m a terrible shot and I could make that shot. I know how to rack a slide if it gets jammed. I’m no expert. Certainly not a professional assassin.
midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Let’s see some receipts, Columbo.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Even hitmen need health insurance.
inv3r510n@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nah, it was one of the many people fucked over by UHC
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well that narrows it down to everyone.
cerement@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
(estimated) 52M membership × 32% denial rate = baseline 16M suspects
DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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thesohoriots@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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slaacaa@lemmy.world 5 months ago
plus families
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Yeah, I think it’s more likely that it was someone whose loved one was denied care instead of someone who was denied care themself.
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 months ago
Got to be a kill count up there with some pretty big dictators.