Magpie 65/ america's Guy Fawkes?
For anyone who, like me, is watching the response to the UnitedHealth assassination with a sense of… I don’t even have a word for how I feel… two links:
“Someone was assassinated and you’re laughing? (New Yorker)”
“A person who posted on Reddit’s r/nurses forum, whose profile describes her as an I.C.U. nurse, wrote, “Honestly, I’m not wishing anyone harm, but when you’ve spent so much time and made so much money by increasing the suffering of the humanity around you, it’s hard for me to summon empathy that you died. I’m sure someone somewhere is sad about this. I am following his lead of indifference.”
How did we get here? I can’t answer that but this book does a good job: the unaccountability machine.
Allow me to summarize: The purpose of the system is what it does. Corporations are legal entities that behave as sociopaths, by both explicitly prioritizing profits, and by creating a legal structure such that individuals who occupy that corporation can distance themselves from the consequences of their actions. That success within these structures may come faster to individuals who mirror corporate goals in their personal ethics should be expected. It’s a feature not a bug.