This is the part thats exciting to me.
Who hasn't been affected by this? Or hasn't seen health insurance denials hurt people?
They can pay security all they want. But the security better be truly sociopathic because whatever the salaries they get paid still won't bring back friends, family, neighbors, mentors, etc.
Pharoahs were a different sort of ruler.
Unfortunately, I don't think that is quite nearly enough.
I have the feeling insurers may want to review their existence as middlemen at all.
Greed is common throughout history. One might say it's human.
I disagree. The worst monsters wear human faces. At the top, you have the dragons with their hoards. The billionaires. The owner class. The ones who just accumulate. Then you have the dragon's monsters. They may well be far worse than the Dragons themselves, but the dragons just demand more, they don't care how. These monsters line up to take a bit of the hoard. The more they can deliver the dragons and their fellow monsters, the more they get themselves.
And what do the monsters do? They lie. They cheat. They swindle and con. They budge their way into things in the phrase of "efficiency" and "improvement."
I think it's far more than that though. I think a lot of parents would agree with me that Christmas morning and birthdays are probably the most exciting time of the year.
Debt is debt. It is nothing compared to the joy your child gets. That joy you see in your kid is worth more than most could ever earn anyway.
And I've seen the poorest families happily dip into that debt. They know it doesn't make things easier.
The problem is that he represented the hoarding dragons. The dragons believe they can keep affording these lesser beings to take the blame for their wealth.
He took measures that made things actively worse for the insured to make him and the owners wealthier.
You can't just skip to the boss fight. You gotta carve a path.
"Thompson lacked personal protection despite known risks."
Oh. Oh ho ho. That is an interesting bit of information.
Not the lacking personal protection. That does surprise me, but not a lot.
What does surprise me is the "despite known risks."
Was he that arrogant? Or do they, the powerful, greedy, and heartless, fear the wrong things?
Interesting to consider. The primal instinct to fear for ones life drives the most basic of biology. Is it possible, that this class of individuals lacks that fear? Or is it that there is something that fear more?
I think we all know the answer to that, of course. They fear losing power and wealth. That's quite a vulnerability. They protect that wealth and power more than their own life. I feel like I've heard about consequences to that.
That would explain how calmed he seemed cycling it. He new it's limitations, and expected it to happen.
Admittedly, I had no idea the Syrian conflict continues on today. I figured it just became a failed state and ended up with various warlords
I can't figure out if starting something is a discrete thing or continuous. Like can I half start a thing? If I can half-start a thing I feel like I do that - you get the picture
I love that you went to the effort to make this
And, by nature of the corrupt system, lose their health insurance