All we could do for pity is to throw a fire extinguisher into his grave. Where he is, he will need it.
Sorry, fire extinguishers are wasted on dragons.
Message control.
This is why they bought the media in the first place, so what they say is loudest.
Billionaires deserve to live in fear for their lives.
*Oligarchs.
Find me one ethical billionaire
Behind every great fortune is a great crime
I would like to know how we can all do more to bring this about.
Advocate for their killing, far and wide. Eventually someone without anything to lose will get the job done
Or we all end up patriot acted away into oblivion.
I get what you’re saying and I’m all for it, but I also wonder if there is a more sneaky way to achieve the same end result.
Maybe we need to democratize Adjustor targets. Start a worldwide coalition with some sort of anonymous forum and voting system.
Or not.
Live, that is.
We should offer to help them stand with him in solidarity, so to speak
People you fucked over don’t sympathize with you?
Boo-fucking-hoo.
There’s no prior authorization for thoughts and prayers.
my beliefs prevent me from providing prayers.
Lmao that’s fucking perfect
I stole it from the Internet.
You made this?
I made this.
Brian Robert Thompson murdered 51,000 innocent human beings.
Please cite a source. It’s gotta be much higher than that.
Not OP, but it’s going to be really hard to assign a hard value to that. There are plenty of obvious examples where they denied a life-saving treatment. But many of them would’ve died anyway.
Then there are cases where they deny preventative/early treatments. Some of these eventually led to more serious and fatal conditions, some did not. How do we count these?
Then there’s quality of life denials. These don’t directly lead to fatal conditions, but can affect morale and the like, thus allowing more serious conditions?
All of it would be compared to the unexplored alternatives (where treatment was authorized). This is inherently an unknown.
I’m not defending him by any means. It’s just that his body count is, at best, a rough estimate.
It is a reasonable first order estimate. See a comment here. I think I will organize this a bit better and make a blog post on this tomorrow. But suffice to say, 51,000 is a good baseline number, based on UHC’s share of the private insurance market and the length of Thompson’s tenure as CEO of UHC. It could be as high as 100,000. But really, at this scale, it ceases to matter. You can only really comprehend it in comparative terms. And his number of victims was order of magnitude greater than that of Osama Bin Ladin.
I’m no math wizard but I’ve read 68k people die per year from preventable shit due to denied claims. Brian worked at United since 2004, CEO since 2021 so he contributed directly or indirectly to that number of deaths per year, at least the portion United is responsible for. United has double the industry average of rejected claims.
It’s def higher than OP states.
We’ve received your request for additional sympathy. Our advanced AI systems will now determine your claim’s eligibility.
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Oh, sorry, looks like it’s been denied.
Demanding sympathy is the height of pity.
Pathetic. Maybe figure out why no one has any sympathy for the guy.
“I demand you respect me!” said the person who is fundamentally undeserving of respect
“You can consolidate wealth or consolidate respect, but not both”
— @ccunning@lemmy.world (just now)
CEOs spotted all over the country in empty grocery store parking lots yelling “I’m a grown-ass man!” to nobody around.
“What could a packet of fowl embryo cost?”
Thank you for needing the working class to exist. We have received and reviewed your request for sympathy towards your continued indifference to human suffering. Unfortunately we must reject your claim…
No, I hope he burns in Hell.
The persecution complex is going to get even more people killed as CEOs grow more paranoid and bodyguards more trigger happy.
Those trigger happy body guards might not be pointing their weapons in the direction these CEOs think
Aww diddums. There there.
Feeling better now?
