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Much like how DC politicians live in a bubble where they think everyone in the US has grocery options and plentiful healthcare (due to how business around DC structures these things so those "leaders" just assume all of the US is like DC), the C suite lives in a tone-deaf rich-person bubble with zero comprehension about what it is like to actually live in the shitty world they orchestrate and manipulate.

Reading some guff about the Kroger-Albertsons attempted merger was case in point. These corpos said: "Oh, if we don't merge, we can't compete against Walmart and Amazon, and we'll have to close stores." Like, no? What business goes, "hey, so we can't compete with adjacent-market companies, time to close up the places that generate our revenue!"

Or the recent Congressional vote to spend THREE BILLION OF OUR DOLLARS paying telecom companies to remove Chinese hardware from their networks. Something they were told to do years ago. The same carriers that will continue to raise our service rates every few months are making us (via Congress) pay them OUR money to do what they should have done themselves years ago.

None of these morons get it, they just keep corrupting their way to profits off of our backs, while digging out the ground we stand on from underneath us.

Are we not?

I am.

Reminds me of finding out the taco bell executive used the phrase 'thinking outside the bun' in the I actual work correspondences.

To function in a big huge corporate c-suite level you must drink the cool-aid.

this is good more of this please

Wow, I really feel like I should be clutching my pearls over the fact that this is what it's come to.

On the other hand...

Just like cops, these folks have earned every bit of hatred coming to them from the public. Even now they continue to pad their own bank account at a staggering rate on the deaths and misery of their fellow man.

If I were a healthcare executive with a conscience (lol I know), or even a healthcare executive with an adequate fear response, I'd resign tomorrow. (Or maybe yesterday?) I guarantee any of these folks has enough wealth to exceed the typical US lifestyle for the rest of their natural lives without having to take any more money for denying care to their fellow citizens. They can pack their shit, never work another day, and still spend the rest of their lives with less stress and greater financial security than my family ever will. There's literally nothing stopping them.

And if their "Type A" personality just can't let them spend multiple decades of their lives just relaxing with their family and enriching their inner self, they have a great resume to get a job at an industry that doesn't profit from the death and pain of their fellow citizens.

Ha! They'll take it from the workers AND raise the prices of whatever products they're selling then pass the cost onto us for a tidy bit of extra profit. The leeches have to suck as much blood out of us as possible.

Owners have to make these officers feel secure again... so we will pay for the security... they can't have their comp cut just because some hero murdered their peer.

The CEO was on his way to implement policies that would kill thousands of people, and injure tens of thousands.

I see no moral gray area.

Legally, the murder was wrong. Full stop.

True but this was self defense. I don't see murder. Murder is the terminology of the regime who is trying to pin some crime on him that I don't see.

When peaceful and effective protest are a choose1, gotta go with effective. If anything, it seems to me to be little different to the trolley problem.

This is exactly my thought. C-levels are going to want competent security and not Rent A Cops, which costs. Companies which provide those services already charge a decent chunk of change for it, and the rates will likely go through the roof now. Additionally, I think they'll find that these "security consultants" will suggest absolutely unacceptable lifestyle changes for them to minimize areas of concern. Much easier to secure a house than a whole nightclub, or golf course.

Right? No introspection at all. I doubt the C-suite of Patagonia sees a need to increase security.

The revolution will not be televised

It's sort of funny. All they are going to do is isolate the bastards into doing even more corrupt shit.

They really refuse to believe that the first part of finding out, is fucking around.

The more they fuck around and put profit ahead of everything, the more finding out I imagine is going to occur.

If somebody's got the itch and just has to go shoot up something this is a way, way better thing to copycat than school shooters.

There's a lot of angry lonely men out there.

If there's anything that will motivate someone to kill it's the potential that women might give them attention.

Calling insurance healthcare is journalistic malpractice. Get better at your craft or get shit on.