Scum

 

I do not condone murder.

I do understand the cheering reaction to the health insurance's CEO's shooting death in New York.

The CEO who was shot was scum. He put profit over people. I would have preferred that he live the rest of his life along with those he loved and never, ever, ever have access to medical care.

I wonder how many of the millions of Americans without health insurance realize that every human in all other industrialized countries have access to some type of health insurance. Some systems are better than others, granted, but it is there.

He is not the only CEO to put profit before people. Customers, employees do not matter over their bonuses.

I do not have anything against profit, but I do have something against excessive profits made on the backs of others.

Top executives say that they give those people jobs. True, but without those people, there would be no one do the work that give them their money. Katie Porter's grilling of CEO Jamie Diamond is an excellent example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WLuuCM6Ej0

Whether it is a corporate executive, politician, lobbyist, the amounts that they earn are staggering in comparison to the average worker. In many cases they do real damage, such as the lobbyist who convinces congress to gut safety regulations because it costs their clients too much from their profits.

Societies that share do better overall. Granted that means people like Jeff Bezos won't have as many mansions with up to 25 bathrooms, but that is preferable to a person not getting the medicines they need because some scum of a CEO encourages systems that denies their claim.

We live in a neofeudalism age. Just the names of the social groups have been changed.