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And so are billionaires now
He’s also eligible for Jury Nullification. Remember, if jury selection(or anyone really) asks you what Jury Nullification is, you do not.
I’ve never heard of it.
That’s the clause whereby it takes just one person too…ohhhhhhh. I uuurm, oh look a carrot.
Fuck NYP
Lol yes make a martyr out of him
It’s a cost many of us are willing to pay, they are killing us anyways, only slowly.
This is the realization that will require far more people to suffer before they will act.
I can’t help but think they’re just making it worse.
Until this happens to more than one guy it’s still going pretty fucking great for billionaires
Right. The only thing wrong with this murder is that it is so rare.
It’s especially true because it was actually very effective, at least temporarily. The Corporate Serial Killer’s company eased up on their rejections for a while, and so did every other health care company.
This is nothing less than the Free Market at work, doing what it is supposed to do. The Corporate Serial Killer took his sociopathic policies too far, and provoked a response from the market in an attempt to correct the issue. The elimination of the Corporate Serial Killer caused the company to adjust its policies so they didn’t provoke such a strong response, and other companies in the sector (and possibly other sectors as well) noticed it, and adjusted their policies as a result.
Conservatives should be celebrating this event. This is the Free Market at work, which is the literal religion of conservatives. This is EXACTLY what they claim they want the markets to do.
Of course, they don’t really want the “Free Market” to be truly Free. They just want it rigged in their favor.
Kind of a nitpick, but the CEO wasn’t a billionaire. It’s also kind of an important distinction, because it’s not necessarily the wealth that’s the main problem, but how the owner class/bourgeoisie obtain their wealth/income. A slumlord worth less than a million is arguably as morally wrong as a Blackstone CEO (one obviously has more wealth/power/impact though). The evidence of owner class solidarity and government capture/corruption is also important. Rashid, being a politician, is likely trying to not alienate is millionaire donors.
You are correct here…
That CEO was an officer of the oligarchy, he was not an oligarch himself.
The reaction from the oligarchy is to show of force to ensure that officers stays calm and keep fucking us harder
He may not have been a Billionaire - YET - but at his age, he certainly saw himself on that track. He was already ordering horrific policies on behalf of increased profit, so he would look good to his bosses and move up the ladder. He was already an active corporate serial killer, murdering people to advance his career and net worth. Eventually, if he sacrificed enough customers on the altar of profit, he would be rewarded with a Billionaireship.
Kind of a nitpick, but the CEO wasn’t a billionaire.
When you’re earning $26M/year, it’s just a matter of time.
A slumlord worth less than a million is arguably as morally wrong as a Blackstone CEO
From a very black-and-white “Bad thing is bad” perspective, sure. But there’s a hierarchy of incentives and profits you’re overlooking. The slumlord very likely carries their properties on some amount of credit, which means they’re collecting rents on behalf of their lender. This lender, in turn, borrows money to increase their leverage and pays rents to a wealthier and more central lending authority. Eventually, the debts for all these loans get traced back to the major banks and other credit brokers, insurers, and private equity firms.
In a feudal sense, the slumlord is merely a plantation overseer and enforcer. The Blackstone CEO is the High Lord, standing on the backs of dozens of lesser aristocrats, who are themselves extracting wealth from their own plantation holdings, which all run thanks to legions of these slumlords going door to door every month to pound the rent out of their tenants.
When you’re earning $26M/year, it’s just a matter of time.
It still takes 40 years.
He had enough to access the stock market’s infinite money glitch if he wanted to.
Spiritually he was a billionaire.
You’re assuming his pay would remain the same and zero investing for the next 40 years. It would take less than 10 if he invested right and saw pay increases
That’s just direct income. With that kind of money, investments and other income streams become possible.
He was making that much now, but his salary would have increased steadily, as his immoral policies brought in more profit by murdering their customers. He would have reached Billionaire status far quicker than 40 years.
No it doesnt.
The S&P doubled in the last five years and more than tripled in the last ten. Pocket $20M of that $26M, at $1.6M/mo, while earning around 15% yoy ROI and you’re looking at $400M inside a decade.
Compound interest is propelling already-rich people into the stratosphere.
15% yoy is too generous. S&P has averaged 10% p.a. over the past 100 years.
But yes, compound interest brings the billion target ($20M pocketed @ 10%) down from 40 to 18.8 years.
But remember, the average CEO tenure is about 7.5 years.
Getting to a billion through a salary only is very difficult.
Sooner or later he would have been offered the CEO position of a big health tech start-up, it would have grown for a few years, than either gone public or sold for several billion, and he’d be the Billionaire he was angling to be.
Okay but the line break made it seem like “Latinos” did something lol.
Yeah the post went a little off the rails after that so we just cropped it
Who is we?
Oh, I’m sure he won’t become a martyr. These idiots are so scared and certain this is the best way forward, they can’t imagine the consequences.
Oh, I’m sure he won’t become a martyr.
I mean, its not even clear if he was the guy who pulled the trigger. Less a martyr than a scapegoat, as far as we can tell.
they can’t imagine the consequences.
The bitter truth is that we’ve got one dead CEO in 2025 and tens of thousands of dead UHC customers. This is math that the shareholders can live with, so long as it guarantees them continued economic growth into the next decade. CEOs are, after all, a dime a dozen. Hell, we’re nearing a point at which they can be replaced with AI.
CEO class is a part of the club. I’d love to see the infighting that would come from that.
It would be a shame if his execution caused copycats.
If Americans had the balls to copycat this, they would have done so months ago, healthcare would have been reformed as a result or at least health insurance companies would be unable to find anyone willing to be CEO for them.
Yeah, I doubt it will happen. But still, it’d be a real shame if it did.
The Billionaire class is so assured in its grasp on power that they’re willing to create martyrs. Let’s see how that turns out
Something tells me that their being out of touch with the lay peoples is about to have some unforeseen consequences for them. In the past the wealthy tried to keep a finger on the pulse as it were to know when to throw parades and shit to keep the peasantry happy. How long has it been since we’ve been given ANYTHING from the owners of capital? They really forgot how to maintain their power. Stupid as fuck NEW MONEY lmao
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Just one month ago.
This month and it was pathetic… Vibe wasn’t there.
Say what you want about 19th century robber barons, at least they had some modicum of sensibility and good taste. The current batch of ketamine addled megalomaniacs and Gollumesque surveillance capitalists can’t fuck off soon enough.
They are getting more and more out of touch, and they have no idea it’s happening.
We’re seeing signs of it every day. A Healthcare CEO is murdered, and the alleged murderer has the majority of the population on his side. A Democratic Socialist wins the NYC mayoral primary by a wide margin, and even his own party disparages him. Jobs are going unfilled because people are refusing to work for minimal wages, while corporations and the government sneer that they are lazy gamers. The streets are filling with enormous crowds of protesters, and their numbers grow with each demonstration.
The Revolution is coming, and all of us are it know it, but the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and their enslaved politicians have no idea. They still think they are in charge, but it is only the ingrained politeness of the American citizenry that has kept their blood from flowing in the gutters.
Once the American people lose their patience with the wealthy and their political slaves, it is going to get very, very ugly for the MAGA Nazis and their enablers (including weak, simpering, spineless Democrats like Chuck Schumer).
Truly regressive to the age of tyrants and kings. Piss off the wrong rich guy and off with your head.
It has always been thus. It’s just accelerating now.
It’s more like a pendulum that has been picking up speed in accordance to the power individuals (or groups of elites) can own.
E.g. a Roman emperor might’ve had absolute power in his day, but he still couldn’t fuck it up for the whole planet at once, for example. Now, not so much, although we’ve had better periods in between.
We briefly had an age where, with some effort, the masses could keep the powerful in check. As you say…it’s disappearing now.
Yeah if I were on that jury, it would be jury nullification all the way. Can’t have the government killing a guy for political reasons, and that’s what this is.
Jury null requires EVERYONE on the jury to agree Not Guilty, there are plenty of sleepwalker who believe the TV narrative about basically everything, Luigi included. Won’t be hard to find at least one
Edit: jury nullification IS NOT the same thing as a hung jury. The former is final. The latter means a new trial with a new jury.
A hung jury is better than a hanging.
A single juror can result in a hung jury.
A hung jury is no verdict at all. Its just means another trial with a new jury until a verdict is reached.
Luigi will be paraded in his jumpsuit until he is formally jailed or dies. Anything else requires everybody to agree on Not Guilty, and that’s astronomically unlikely given the volume of lobbying against him.
Whether or not he did it isn’t even relevant anymore. It’s whether the common folk of a jury think he did, and both supporters and detractors of ‘The Adjustor’ consider that to be Luigi. His identity is so entangled in the public consciousness that the only way out is nullification, and prosecution is unlikely to allow such a jury to form.
A new trial isn’t automatic. Many Hung Juries are never tried again, because often the District Attorney has no reason to believe that the outcome will be any different in another expensive trial.
A hung jury in Luigi’s case would definitely be re-tried, over and over, if necessary, but after 3 or 4 hung juries, they’d probably finally give up, and blame liberals.
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there are plenty of sleepwalker who believe the TV narrative about basically everything
I have a family member like that. They’re not religious of any kind, worked with fine electronics in factory, etc. and is by no means stupid. Earlier this year they started ranting about children supporting terrorism and no one understood what was going on. Until they revealed that some kids had written “Stop killing children” with chalk on the sidewalk. All because of TV news with anchors and all that. Not even some far right or conservative channel, just traditional and usually pretty neutral news. But they leave out 90% of what is going on.
I’ve read this twice but are they saying that writing stop killing children is supporting terrorism?
Here’s my best guess on the chain of logic:
Stop killing children -> Stop killing Palestinian children -> Stop Israel’s war on Palestine -> Not supporting Israel -> Supporting Palestine -> Supporting Hamas -> Supporting Terrorism
It’s about 15 too many conclusions to jump to but I’ve seen people do it. A lot.
Jesus H Christ
That’s a very common chain of thinking for people with poor Critical Thinking Skills.
No, that is WRONG. It only requires ONE juror to refuse to vote Guilty, and it’s a Hung Jury.
Hung jury =/= jury nullification.
I’m sure whoever killed that guy was aware that the death penalty was a possibility. They probably made their peace with that possibility a while back.
And yet they seem to still be out there, having gotten away with it
So they believe that a person should die for killing a CEO, one person, but the CEO who created an AI specifically to deny claims resulting in many painful deaths didn’t? suuuure. this totally isn’t a revealing kneejerk reaction from elites pissing their pants
Social murder is not illegal because the billionaires make the laws.
Social murder is how wealth is made…
Slavery is another route.
Owner class knows this and they known peasants would revolution if critical mass understood it too
So, in the second example, I realise those people didn’t get the death penalty, but were they also eligible for it?
I think texas has a death penalty for capital murder, which begins at two or more murders done at the same time. That means the el paso shooter could have gotten it. Xorollo pointed out the florida possibility.
So, they’re comparing someone who could have gotten the death penalty but didn’t, to someone who could get the death penalty but likely won’t?
The line seems to be drawn at choosing whether to charge the murder at a state or federal level. In Luigi’s case, he is being tried federally.
Which asks the question as to why Luigi’s case is being tried federally while mass casualty/terrorism crimes are only being charged at the state level.
Because he crossed state lines to escape I guess?
It’s an excuse given that is a piss poor reasoning overall.
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