I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!
Yeah I know, the old “It’s different when WE do it” routine. Same old same old.
Yes, because betraying the bourgeoisie is good for workers, whereas betraying the workers is bad for workers. Duh?
Spoiled rich kid with back pain kills insurance CEO, some industry-wide practices abruptly change.
Public: “Yay, justice at last! Spoiled Rick Kid is a god!!!”
Insurance practices slowly go back to the way they were. New CEO is just as bad.
Public: “The system betrayed us again!”
Duh?
And now the public knows that killing a CEO had a direct impact. Regardless of the perpetrator, that has an effect on the public imagination!