Over 100 Americans have died from diabetes since this guy was shot. Where are the headlines for all of them? Does the fact that they were murdered by a system instead of an individual make their deaths less noteworthy?
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2024
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Also, there's something like an average of 47 gun deaths per day (not sure if this site is including suicides, if it is then it's roughly half without it). But CEOs matter more than Average Joe.
I mean to be fair we're all here clicking on this one to cheer at the guy. News organizations are going to run stories that get them clicks. While we may consider his death important and noteworthy, none of us are going to click and read an article about how Joe Random died from his heart failure or diabetes.
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Repeat after me: healthcare should not be profit driven..
Healthcare should not be profit driven.
You asked me to.
I'm glad that I live in a country with socialized healthcare.
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Insurance is just a bad model for healthcare.
I don't have any problem with hospital workers being fairly compensated. They have difficult jobs, and doctors are highly skilled and have expensive student loans to pay off. But the cost of care in the US is astronomical compared to any other industrialized nation.
More Americans die every year because of lack of access to medical care than from all of our wars combined.
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It's a good reminder that the people who oppress us have names and addresses.
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This might be the most accurate version of the original scene done in real life.
This is stupid because I have not seen one comment from anyone other than other CEOs that is not celebrating his death.
That's the point. You did it. You discovered the discrepancy. No one cares and Infact we are celebrating. However the police are pumping money into mass manhunt, news is juicing the story nonstop. 10k reward for info. Obviously the powers that be care and care a lot that a CEO got shot. You don't. I don't. And yet by time it's over, hundreds of thousands of dollars will have been spent in man-hours hunting this guy down. An amount of money that would be ridiculous if you or I got shot. No one would care. But a CEO? nYPD pulling out every stop they got.
10k reward for info
Which is frankly hilarious. UnitedHealthCare group grossed $90 billion in the last 12 months and they are offering only a $10,000 reward for help finding the assassin. I bet their next CEO gets 10 to 100 times that much in just a signing bonus.
They probably spent 2mil on researching what amount of money would be enough to engage people without having to give poors a chance at real money.
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why do I feel like flooding the reward info line with false information like we always do with the abortion manhunt forms.
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Good job he died really innit, cos those medical bills would've been a bit pricey!
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One death is a tragedy, 16m deaths is a statistic.
One ceo death is a targeted assassination. Multiple ceo deaths is a revolution.
'Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."' -- as a software engineer, I assure you this isn't completely true. If things are too smooth, something is definitely, probably horribly and sneakily, wrong.
"Any problem that goes away by itself can come back by itself." - fellow programmer I knew
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Uhh, correct me if I'm wrong, but the total population of America is 335m. If 16m people are dying DAILY, your entire country will be dead by Christmas.
If a 20th of the population dropped dead overnight, I would like to think that any nation would panic.
They may mean tomorrow in the metaphorical sense. Like "the world of tomorrow" kind of sense.
It also could just be an arbitrary/hyperbole number, to show how little the lives of the many mater to the news in comparison to the ceo.
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This is just another proof that we live in a capitalist dystopia. Only rich lives matter.
Who's losing their mind? I find this based as hell.
Tim Walz made some gross tweet mourning this guy and calling it a tragic loss. Kinda underlines the whole "Democratic establishment is out of touch" line we've been hearing since the election
To be fair, the lead filled CEO was from Walz's state. He is kind of required to make a statement and he couldnt exactly say "fuck that guy".
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