142 points

(estimated) 52M membership × 32% denial rate = baseline 16M suspects

permalink
report
reply
75 points

permalink
report
parent
reply
55 points

permalink
report
parent
reply
22 points

What I learned is that Kaiser actually has the lowest denial rate? Maybe the King did come for him…

permalink
report
parent
reply
24 points

plus families

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Yeah, I think it’s more likely that it was someone whose loved one was denied care instead of someone who was denied care themself.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Got to be a kill count up there with some pretty big dictators.

permalink
report
parent
reply
113 points
*

Oh no! I really hope this doesn’t start happening to all of the CEOs and board members that make a profit off of legally killing people

permalink
report
reply
41 points
*

The thing that is entirely possible coming out of this is a boon for PMCs getting hired for far more visible corporate security. Hotels and roads shut down for CEOs as if they are heads of state. I guess it was inevitable and cyberpunk really is just life imitating art

permalink
report
parent
reply
33 points

So next stage are roadside IED?

permalink
report
parent
reply
36 points

I’m not gonna tell you how to do your job

permalink
report
parent
reply
33 points

Nah, Ukraine has already shown the world how regular consumer grade drones can be used as very effective military grade weapons. No need for a roadside IED when you can fly the IED right to their face.

permalink
report
parent
reply
21 points

There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

– Network (1976)

permalink
report
parent
reply
91 points

It’s unfortunate this is the reality that people are living with. Events like this will become more frequent if the billionaire class doesn’t do something about it.

permalink
report
reply
108 points

Oh no. I hope they don’t keep getting submarined!

permalink
report
parent
reply
42 points

Has consequence culture gone too far?

permalink
report
parent
reply
33 points

permalink
report
parent
reply
57 points

In today’s world people should be afraid to flaunt their wealth, pursue these big positions. There’s so much inequality, I wouldn’t want to be the one to have all the goods. I dont condone murdering people for it, we should eat them instead.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

So eat them alive then?

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

No we feast on their money while they get to serve it up voluntarily to stay clear of the guillotine.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

But only as much as they can survive.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

i wonder how much survivorship bias there is in this

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

survivorship of what

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

What is it exactly you think “eat the rich” means?

permalink
report
parent
reply
41 points
*

They’ll do something about it alright, like pushing for further militarization of the police, increased government latitude to spy on civilians, and restrictions of what kinds of weapons we’re permitted to own.

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

Yeah this is just the precursor to cyberpunk (both the genre and the franchise) where corporate CEOs move with militarized armed escorts and have free reign to control areas and traffic where they see fit

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

Which will really drive hatred and show the wage slaves exactly who owns their country. Could backfire spectacularly.

permalink
report
parent
reply
67 points
*

It’s like a textbook example of justice being served one way or the other, if not in orderly respectable fashion then in an abrupt violent fashion.

Society failed them both.

permalink
report
reply
33 points

Society failed them both.

I’d say society did pretty well by the CEO. It was unrelenting greed and placing profits over people that got him to his end. That’s on him.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

I think they mean that society, in its money worship, failed the guy killed. He obviously valued money over lives and he learned that somewhere.

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

I think so too, but I disagree. No one is forced into a CEO lifestyle or profit-above-all mindset. I feel like that’s pretty much on him. Echoing a comment I saw elsewhere - my empathy is out of network for this guy.

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

As an aside I would say capitalism failed them. Society has existed and failed and evolved since people realized it was beneficial to work together. But that basic byline has always existed with those exploiting others. Roman society failed, feudal society failed, the first version of the US failed as a society, so on and so forth. In this lens, the version of society that failed is capitalism, or probably in this case late-stage capitalism

permalink
report
parent
reply
46 points

Life denied due to preexisting case of terminal Affuenza

  • stolen from another lemmy
permalink
report
reply

Lemmy Shitpost

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Create post

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful

Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.


2. No Illegal Content

Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)


3. No Spam

Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.


4. No Porn/Explicit

Content


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.


5. No Enciting Harassment,

Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

Community stats

  • 14K

    Monthly active users

  • 7.1K

    Posts

  • 95K

    Comments