While it’s very unlikely that someone has a definitive answer, this question popped into my head after the assassination of the UHC CEO and it’s been bothering me that I can’t shake off this feeling that more is likely to happen (maybe not in higher frequency but potential).

Usually I could provide counter-arguments to myself in a realism/(should I buy apples or oranges comparison) kind-of sense but this one I feel more unsure about.

I wish I had more diverse exp in systems analysis as these kinds of questions that linger in my head really irritates my OCD brain as I just want to know what’s the most likely answer.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    711·
    15 days ago

    You might feel happy about this in your far left wonderland. But in the real world, the consequence of stuff like this spreading will be that CEOs will acquire better security, nobody will ever be able to even glance at them without getting tasered and you the consumer are going to pay for all of it.

    Changing the social security system into a centralized one might work, but note that scandinavia (the place that has championed such systems) is having pretty big problems with their health care systems as well.

    Perhaps IT work has tarnished my political mind as well, but I tend to think more and more that it’s not about the ideology, but about the implementation that matters.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      14·
      15 days ago

      We’re already paying for their private jets and super yachts. At least making them paying for a security team means some more jobs for regular people. And they will need to pay their Praetorians well if they don’t want those guys to turn on them.

      If capitalism were working correctly, this would be a great business opportunity for smaller companies which wouldn’t have CEOs with expensive private jets and praetorians. But capitalism isn’t working so well at the moment.

        • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
          7·
          15 days ago

          Yeaaaah that upward mobility isn’t a feature of the system, it’s a bug, and they’re working on patching it constantly.

          It’s never been easier to be a billionaire. It’s never been harder to be a millionaire.

          • Aux@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            212·
            15 days ago

            It is actually very very easy to be a millionaire, especially a USD millionaire, these days. Once again, wealth is not money. And here in London we have plenty of low paid people like nurses who are millionaires on paper. Simply because they bought their house 30+ years ago and now median average house price in London is above £700k, which makes you a fucking dollar millionaire even if you’re living wage to wage.