Technocracy

10 readers

1 users here now

For the promotion of a government that operates based on data, empirical evidence, and input from qualified experts in a field.

founded 2 months ago

MODERATORS

EzraNaamah

What are your thoughts on the CEO healthcare assassination? (self.technocracy)

submitted 1 week ago by EzraNaamah to c/technocracy

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I think that assassinations and violence are what happens when laws and legal systems fail to protect people, so from that perspective you can argue the breakdown of society is way overdue. I think technocrats should speak out in favor of Luigi Mangione since from a logical rationalistic perspective, I cannot think of a reason to sympathize with the CEO, besides police possibly harassing you or maybe if you are scared of the current society falling into chaos. What do you guys think?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] paddirn 3 points 1 week ago

While vigilante killing is wrong no matter who it is, killing a health insurance CEO is apparently not that bad in the eyes of many in the American public. Many many many people have stories about health insurance companies screwing them and their families over and denying claims, their business is built on denying valid medical claims, so there's not alot of sympathy for the victim here in this case, thus the flood of memes that showed up.

What I wonder about though, given all the predatory capitalism we're seeing in the US and around the world, is this a spark that sets off a wave of copycat killings? CEOs of investment firms or oil companies or gun manufacturers or apartment/rental home companies or RealPage (responsible for increases rents across the country), or just billionaires in general, alot of these companies/executives have devastated America & the world with their business practices (or some people may believe they have). Do these executives start getting targeted by vigilantes as a means of "balancing the scales"? And if that happens, how is that countered, do we start seeing CEOs hiring out teams of bodyguards to protect them whenever they travel, and we see a sort of futuristic feudalism start to develop from this?