• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    17 days ago

    Problem is it wasn’t illegal. So the law is no use here. So exposing the activities they are engaged in right in public is no use. It’s like whistleblowing on Trump colliding with Russia. He did it right in front of everybody and got away with it.

    Also, ultimately profits don’t have to always increase. In fact, it’s an impossibility over the long term without diversifying, and even then growth will slow. There’s not a damn thing wrong with a business that consistently, reliably turns 1B into 1.1B (or whatever).

    killing a CEO is very likely to result in either imprisonment and/or death and unlikely to directly cause change. It’ll spark some discussion on the news, but is that really worth throwing your life away?

    Maybe? I mean a life lived in misery isn’t worth much. At the end of the day, only he can answer whether it was worth the cost, but the rest of us have the opportunity to build on the message he sent. Will we capitalize (lol) on that opportunity? Probably not, but Mangione was undoubtedly a spark. Eventually a spark will catch, but of course it’s never certain who will get burned.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      exposing the activities they are engaged in right in public is no use

      It would piss people off without pushing them to defend someone you murdered. In other words, the message is clearer.

      He did it right in front of everybody and got away with it.

      We don’t have receipts, so it doesn’t hit as hard. Catching someone red handed doing what everyone already assumes they’re doing is a much better call to action than just saying what we’re all thinking.

      ultimately profits don’t have to always increase

      They do if you want to keep your job as CEO, otherwise they’ll replace you with someone who will chase profits.