Idk what you guys are watching I didn’t see nothin
Hard to tell due to the resolution, but it kinda looks like the vid is actually showing a seed that grows into increased healthcare access… all I see are lives being saved!
Nah. That’s just low resolution. We still live in the age of heartless capitolism. Some NEW asshole will take his place, and nothing will change short of an actual revolution.
When this new guy takes over, kill him too. Kill all the billionaires. Kill capitolism itself. THAT is the only way suffering for profit ends.
suffering for profit
Oh I like this turn of phrase. Not sure when I will steal it, but I surely will.
I think that everyone involved in the Healthcare industry, on the insurer side, will take a long deep pause and consider carefully the next time they decide to decline a request.
Lol no, they will just increase their security.
Easier to pay 5 low wages than 1 medical claim.
A society wide world of Warcraft quest, “Deal with 500 C-suite executives and unlock healthcare and housing as human rights for the server”
I mean BCBS and one other have unreasonably short timelimits on surgeries before they stop paying, so I am not so sure that this has done anything to deture the behavior
Well, think of it like a medication: start small and assess. If you didn’t get the results you want, increase the a dose!
Just someone who suddenly decided it’s time to take their coffee for a run.
He was coming right for him!
Sonofabitch, it was ned and Jimbo wasn’t it?
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That’s $70 for every living American. Why can’t we get healthcare?
Because not enough people vote for a party fighting for people’s healthcare.
Which party would that be? Which “party” was really pushing for Medicare for All? I can only think of Bernie (back to independent?) and a tiny number of Democrats.
That shouldn’t even matter if there was even a single company that isn’t garbage. There just isn’t though. Guillotine time!
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My city hired an outside company to process workers comp claims. By state law certain illnesses are presumed to be job related and the city must cover treatment costs.
The fuckers they hired have been denying claims of coworkers covered by said law. Said fuckers will hire high dollar lawyers to fight the inevitable lawsuit to avoid paying out for claims. This is something I’ve witness several coworkers go through.
Wild. That’s a lot more brazen than I expected.
Yeah. Obv premeditated. Planned well in advance. Seems like he knew his routine. Had the right gear. Caught the casings. No hesitation or announcement.
The backpack though. Bit distinct.
Premeditated. Preplanned. Preexisting: sorry sir, law enforcement can’t take your claim.
Now I’m wondering who that guy is and how the company fucked him over.
My bet is on disgruntled family member who Mema’s cancer treatment didn’t get approved.
The amount of suspects is so incredibly huge that it’s a statistical miracle that someone else didn’t get him first
What a concept for a brand new game show.
“Who wants to kill a billionaire?”
🙋
“Amazing, you all won!”
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I’m not convinced he was catching the casings. He seems to be correcting malfunctions.
He’s using subsonic ammo and maybe a homemade suppressor. The gun can’t cycle with that. That’s why he’s racking it by hand and why he left both shell casings and unfired cartridges behind (because he over racked it).
A homemade can without a Nielsen (muzzle booster) device would certainly account for that. Since most consumer cans come with them by default.
Agreed
That’s what I saw as well. He’s not catching the casings.
I was wondering if the gun were designed to hold the casing until it’s manually retrieved.
Some guns, especially ones that have a tilting barrel (most pistols) can be finicky about adding a big weight at the end of the barrel. most surpressors nowadays have methods to sorta help counteract the weight, but the gun can still jam or not cycle if the ammo isn’t powerful enough.
in this case, it looks like they didn’t test out their setup well enough, and had to manually rack the slide to eject the spent case and chamber a new round.
That’s a revolver
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I think your are right. Depending on the type of pistol, they don’t all cycle nicely with suppressors. I’ve seen some suppressor/pistol combos where people have to manually cycle the slide, after firing, to chamber the next round a lot of the time.
He wasn’t, the police found two casings and two unfired rounds at the scene.
I’m speculating it was this gun, single shot, magazine fed, bolt action, silenced
Welrods don’t really exist outside of video games and museums. You’re not going to see them on the streets or black market. It was almost certainly a homemade suppressor that caused malfunctions.
That would explain how calmed he seemed cycling it. He new it’s limitations, and expected it to happen.
B&T VP9 and their Station six nine. Not saying it was that, but just saying they exist on the market today. So a welrod-alike can be had. But it would absolutely leave a paper trail as its a unique gun.
They’re novelty guns that aren’t generally circulating around. I’ve seen, held and shot some unicorns throughout my life but weldrods and clones are just too esoteric to really be out there. Spas 12, calico, mark 23, Glock 18, etc all fall short of the true myth that is a welrod, even with the modern production. I know someone who has a true SG44 and I’ve even disassembled a real HK G11 and checked out the XM8, still no welrod.
Gun Jesus also disagrees
I suspect the backpack contained a disguise or something. Dude was too much of a pro to not consider getaway.
Still. A gradeschool jansport can carry those same things and can be bought at any walmart.
Either way, my bet is this goes unsolved.
One of the first news reports said the cops have him on video at a Starbucks just prior, so he left “forensic evidence” plus his face on camera.
IF that’s true, they might get him. Anyone can buy a silencer with the right ATF background checks, so if he bought it legally, they’d likely have his prints.
If he wasn’t at Starbucks, or had a mask, or wore gloves, he’s in the clear.
Subsonic rounds with a silencer don’t necessarily short stroke the gun, but he looks like he practiced firing in that condition a lot. If he did indeed catch the casings, there won’t be a lot to catch him on. Maybe if he walks to a car later.
If the cops are right, they’ll catch him. If they’re wrong, I agree he won’t get caught.
Supposedly he took off on an ebike.
Ditched that in Central Park.
Are those only usable with credit cards? That would suck. Unless they take prepaid gift cards, then he would’ve had to buy one on the black market or something to be in the clear.
I mean… you can buy your own.
I’ve seen homeless people riding bike share city bikes before. Not ebikes, but I’ve also heard of homeless people boosting electric shared scooters as well, so it seems that someone this dedicated to his pursuit would have done the same and not used his credit card (or perhaps used a stolen one).
Where in that video did he “catch the casings”?
He didn’t. News says the casings had words written on them.
watch again and he’s manually having to cycle. He’s also very clearly practiced is manually cycling to reload. whether that’s because of the suppressor or because he’s modified the gun, the casing would be available to catch every time he cycles. he’s not snatching them out of the air, but when you manually cycle like that they would go into your hand .
don’t worry, the reddit detectives will find him based on the backpack.
Backpack could be a hand made cover that can be tossed or just stuffed inside the backpack. With all the planning that seems to have gone into this, it seems unlikely something that prominent would be overlooked.
I think I have that backpack…
Gray, brown strap on top, very distinction top flap. It’s great for getting into and out of on the move, so I guess it makes sense.
https://www.peakdesign.com/products/everyday-backpack?Size=20L&Color=Ash
If it weren’t so expensive, this would probably become the best-selling backpack for a while.
Imagine thinking ftf was catching casings…🤣
I mean, he went to fucking Starbucks beforehand.
My god, I can’t believe this. There’s a lemmy community for videos??
Silencers don’t work. That shot was heard 'round the world.
Silencers make the shot less loud, so it still drew less attention that it would have without a silencer becuse it sounded less like a gunshot and the sound didn’t carry as far.
/woosh
Yup, my tired ass completely wiffed the punchline.
I’ve heard speculation that subsonic ammunition was probably used which would have made a silencer much more effective. That might explain the apparent misfires that had to be cleared, if the gun wasn’t designed for subsonic. I don’t know if this actually makes sense or not.
Ah, that be a rare double troll. Bravo.
Hey ChatGPT give me a list of people, who were, or who have family who were denied lifesaving treatment in the last year; cross ref with people living in three hours drive.
That would be millions of results. It’s United Healthcare, the Walmart of healthcare. They ain’t paying anything they can get out of.
Yeah — I know. That was kinda the joke (poorly made it would seem)
And yes deny deny deny is their mantra
Well now he’s been denied…of tomorrow. Annie was poor in an orphanage, but at least she could sing about tomorrow.
How did you not understand that was the point?
The most unmourned assassination of all time. Even had that guy succeeded in July, more people would have mourned Trump’s passing than this guy.
Trump has a cult following though. They would all drink the Kool aid if he told them to.
This guy though, this guy only benefits by literally killing people in the name of profit.
I just read an article about Anthem limiting the amount of anesthesia regardless of how long the procedure takes. These people are fucking around and hopefully we are entering the find out stage.
I have very little sympathy for a CEO who has been responsible for tens of thousands of deaths due to denied health insurance claims.
At the same time, I’m alarmed that we’ve reached this point. Somehow I think Thompson’s assassination is going to be the start of a trend where high profile corporate executives are targeted by disgruntled stakeholders.
The perpetrator made a lot of errors that are probably going to lead to his arrest within the coming hours, that’s if he’s not already fled the country to Indonesia, Moldova, UAE, Laos or any other country that has no extradition treaty with the US.
I don’t want to sound bloodthirsty, but I was always really confused why this wasn’t happening regularly, at least in the States. Those people, the CEOs, are the faces of corporations that fucked many people over. With the amount of the violent gun crimes in USA you would think those CEOs would be targets of disgruntled gun owners all the time instead of next to never.
At the risk of sounding a bit more bloodthirsty, since the current capital class is basicially free of consequences for their opression of the working class due to incredibly corrupt justice system, those things should be a natural outcome of the working class frustration. Especially accounting for absurd access to deadly and easy to use guns. Nature is healing.
We, Americans, are INCREDIBLY conditioned to respect authority. On TV the bad guy always gets caught, prosperity and authority is deserved and comes straight from God, there are all powerful forces (God or the market) working benevolently in everone’s favor and certain people, typically white males, are born to lead.
Reality is quiet different, but we respect the system and have a lot of faith that if we live right things will work out. Honestly, we’re a polite and kind people, meanwhile, we’ve created a corporate culture that favors narcissm and psychopaths.
Our cultural imperialism was perfected here at home.
The thing is, that culture has been breaking. More and more people have internalized the idea that there is a seperate legal system for the rich and powerful. Politeness is being eroded in favor of toxicity. People are losing trust in political institutions.
The U.S. is a powder keg of poor, desperate people waiting for a match.
I’m rubbing my flint and steel together as much as I can
I would reckon that it’s because these people are incredibly well-protected. Once you reach an executive office at the large companies I’ve worked for, you have to live in a giant compound because of the size of the detail of elite security forces that must accompany you at all times. I’m talking 40+ people paid by the company, ex-special forces. These details do entire building security sweeps ahead of the CEO, checking for bombs, bugs and other threats. The board mandates that you have this protection.
I’m inclined to agree and disagree.
Agree in the respect of home security and any kind of corporate mandated security. If you are rich and/or live in a rich neighbourhood, you’ll need all the protection you can get to deter burglars. Also, corporations in particularly egregious industries like health insurance probably deal with threats on a regular basis.
Disagree because I think a big part of why corporate execs aren’t usually targeted is that they keep a relatively low profile outside of their jobs and aren’t typically public facing unlike more household names like Taylor Swift, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden, etc. There are probably a lot of senior managers, big corporate execs and millionaires hiding in plain sight.
I’m sure a lot of people from Florida know who their governor is (Ron DeSantis) but not who the CEO of Carnival Corp & plc is (Micky Arison.) Only people who are really invested in that industry in some way would know, which is why figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are rare exceptions.
Even the level of security that current and former Presidents of the United States get are not infallible. Donald Trump was almost assassinated twice in this year’s campaign alone.
I think you are making good points here. I don’t think most corporate execs have that kind of detail, I agree that it’s likely more public-facing or in industries like healthcare, insurance, banking, real estate, law - any industry that can directly ruin people’s lives. To that point, if this company never had security details for their CEO, I am also surprised this hasn’t happened sooner.
Thank you for sharing. The boards for the companies I’ve worked for mandated security detail for C levels. I’m gonna go ahead and posit that this board will now mandate as well.
I don’t want to sound bloodthirsty, but I was always really confused why this wasn’t happening regularly, at least in the States. Those people, the CEOs, are the faces of corporations that fucked many people over. With the amount of the violent gun crimes in USA you would think those CEOs would be targets of disgruntled gun owners all the time instead of next to never.
I’ve long wondered the same. This thought comes up every time I hear news of a mass shooting.
Look at the Civil Rights and Labor movements – American’s in the past have waged war on their oppressors.
Weirdly enough those parts of history get glossed over in school.
People don’t like hurting other people, even if it is justified.
Exceptions to this are relatively rare.
Quick google revealed that on average apparently 327 people are shot in USA every day, and 1 in 5 people have a family member that has been fatally shot. In comparison, in my country 267 people have been murdered by any means in entire the 2022. Population difference is a bit over 9x, so sure, that makes it a bit less grim, but USA still does more gun violence alone in a single week per capita, than my country does any kind of violence (and trust me we Poles are inventive kind) in entire year.
I think the “problem” isn’t related to there being too few people trigger happy enough in USA, but I’m myself not too sure what it is that makes median voter more prone to shooting innocent strangers instead of depraved bilionaires. While I might sound sarcastic, I’m really not, I’m honestly bewildered by this and has been for years now.
Eat the rich is not figurative.
That’s how you get prions. Better to mulch the rich and use them as fertiliser.
Inshallah.
Many of us have been trying to hint to the C-suites that the stone holds no more blood, for decades now, with increasingly visible and large protests as time goes on.
I am also sad that we’re at this point, after this much time and effort into doing the right thing in peaceful ways.
I have no condolences to offer at this time.
Honestly, I feel no sympathy for executives in the health industry whose job is to fuck over people and denying their claims
I feel no sympathy for the man.
I feel for his family though. I feel for his children without a parent and his wife without a spouse. I feel for his parents without a son.
But I don’t feel any sympathy for him. How many other parents, spouses, and children are missing who should be here were it not for his company denying them healthcare? How many lives were made worse by his company not paying for their comfort or treatment?
I know vengeance doesn’t bring anyone back, just adds to the total of human sadness. But I hope someone somewhere feels some measure of comfort here. And maybe the CEO who follows him will prevent a greater amount of sadness going forward.
Will his family be returning the blood money? Or expressing sympathy for Brian’s many thousands of victims?
His family will mourn him. His victims will not.
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I’m sure they’re comfortably crying in one of their mansions
Wow.
That’s someone who planned this out. No rushing, very calmly aiming and shooting. Walking up slowly, even crossed the street at a walking pace at first.
Apparently his gun jammed between each shot and he was very chill/good at unjamming it. So, police think Mr Guillotine is ex-army or ex-cop.
Might not be jamming, if you use subsonic ammo and a big fat suppressor, it’s possible that there simply isn’t enough gas pressure left to cycle the action of the gun, effectively turning the gun into a bolt-action.
The guy certainly doesn’t look surprised by a jam.
He was probably shooting subsonics, knowing they wouldn’t cycle the action. Silencers make a reliable gun unreliable by changing the gas system pressures. One way to make it reliable is to make sure every shot has to be manually cycled by shooting underpowered rounds.
Maybe he was doing the SPORT technique for unjamming commonly taught in the army at least
Oh, is that what he was doing? I thought it was just not a semi-automatic gun or something, and he had to cock it each time (I am not a firearms expert lol). It seems that it might have even been hot and burnt his hand before the third (fourth? not gonna watch again) shot.
They also used a surpressed weapon which requires manual recocking of the weapon.
Profits above all else. Whose the next CEO then?
I like this train ride
If they find the guy, I hope the jury nullifies.
Better yet they do a whole case about how this is justified defence from all the deaths that guy was causing
That works as well. Anything to make these ghouls actually sweat a bit about the needless suffering they cause for monopoly money
I would argue if we got a jury to say he was not guilty because shooting a Rich Ghool was Defence, it would cause FAR more worries than a simple nulification.
They would just retry in federal with the most stacked jury in us history.
Double jepordy, I would hope cracks would atleast become glaring if that happened
Only in the short term!
Well we would not have a legal fraimwork to do this agian
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He keeps racking the slide because the recoil spring is too heavy and the suppressor is too heavy in the front of the barrel to allow for tilting of the barrel during cycling of rounds. So he has to manually chamber a round each shot. All non fixed barrels have this issue as far as handguns go. A simple correct recoil spring swap maybe trial and error for poundage and this would have cycled normally.
As an alternative he might have been going for maximum sound suppression. Locked breach suppressed guns are much quieter than automatic cycling. There are a lot of YouTube videos about shooting quiet. Once you’re shooting subsonic 10mm + rounds the loudest part is the escaping gas from the automatic cycling.
Not a bad take but doubtful. He’s in NYC people are everywhere as it is probably the most surveiled state in the US. Maybe DC. While I agree with the quietness its not ideal to have to do that. He got hit in the back and the calf. Wildly different parts of the body. A fully functioning tool when you need it is better than a quieter slow tool that is inaccurate and you have to fumble with each use.
Use the right recoil springs and test before hand and change ammo and springs if need be. If your in a pinch changing ammo type from quieter subsonic to +P could help cycle but won’t be as quiet as there’s more powder and recoil. Use the right tool for the job and learn. Don’t half ass your life sentence. If not use a revolver and be done.
If you rewatch the video it looks like he expects to need to manually rack the slide. He’s not phased at all.
I’m not saying going for a locked slide is the best approach. I’m just saying that it looks like he expected it. I don’t think anyone who is clever enough to evade being arrested at the time of the incident is dumb enough to not practice before hand. Particularly in the most surveilled state in the U.S.
He might have decided quietness is more important than follow-up speed when planning a close encounter assassination.
fazed*
This reads like a tarkov player offering their professional hitman advice. The guy got the job done lol
Good advise for the next guy!
He may have been firing sub-sonic rounds in conjunction with the silencer/suppressor. Purely anecdotally but I’ve heard that that combination “can” lead to jams and the need for manual reracking.
Man my dad’s old squirrel gun (.22 semi) doesn’t cycle subsonics, and it doesn’t have a silencer, so that absolutely tracks.
Do you have more than one type of squirrel? In the UK you can bag as many invasive greys as you want (.22, twelve foot pounds of air - lol) but don’t ever hit a native red. The greys brought a virus (?) that has decimated our native reds.
TLDR: squirrel racism is promoted in the UK.
Edit: 12 ft/lbs is the legal limit for air rifles (easy to buy and operate) but it’s not unheard of for people to - illegally - up that. The only thing worse than missing vermin is injuring vermin.
We do, in Ontario we have grey squirrels and red squirrels, and same thing you can take I think 5-6 a day during the fall season, but no touchy the loud ass tiny redheaded Dingus that is blowing out your deer stand…
Also we have black Grey squirrels here, so I have been known to say to a red squirrel “hey friend. Don’t worry, shut up I’m not after you, but if you have any black friends…”
Then I die inside.
That’s a brilliant reply. Thank you. I’m really tickled by the “Got any black friends?” comment. Sentences to never take out of context and all that… I’m gonna do a little research now as I’ve seen one or two brown (?) squirrels which I always assumed were red/grey cross breeds. I take no pleasure in killing animals but it has to be done… (to anybody who might disagree with that last bit - sadly it’s a fact. It’s not an opinion. Without human intervention many species would cease to exist. We made a mess and now we’re trying to clean it up.)
It’s not really a jam if you’re just clearing the chamber, just means it’s a single action semi auto 😂
Yeah, single action is also a possibility but I was just following on from the previous suppressor / silencer comments and trying to add to that. Sub-sonic and silencer ( for a USian private citizen) is such a unique (and illegal?) combination that I’d be reasonably surprised if that was the case - but it is possible. That’s all I wanted to point out.
Useful
I figured it was due to the spring. Long time ago I knew a guy who had a HK 45 with a suppresser. He had two additional springs. One for regular rounds with the suppresser attached and one for rounds made with less powder. Those were lower velocity and nearly silent.
Also to consider, this is New York, a state very hostile to suppressors (they are illegal). Knowing nothing about the man’s origins, he could have been a New York native, doing the best he could with what training he could get without raising red flags.
Figured it was the suppressor, didn’t know why. You would think he would have tested a bit.
As much as my brain knows the guy had it coming, the rest of me just doesn’t like seeing someone - anyone - killed. I wanna say that there must be better, non-violent ways of changing a system that allows a few to become crazy rich from the pain and poor health of millions - but those better ways just don’t seem to exist. Stuff like this is going to happen when people have no other effective alternatives. It’s fucked up, but here we are.
Oh this doesn’t even change the system. United will have a new CEO and be back to business.
This doesn’t change anything and, honestly, i wouldn’t even bet on there being a lot of copycat murders, if any. I just like the simple joy of watching someone live out one of my fantasies
That’s exactly why the NYPD wants this to be a high-profile investigation. They don’t give two shits about some poor black teen dying, but a rich white man must be avenged. They won’t hold press conferences for a kid, but dumping millions into an investigation for this guy will help other rich white men feel protected.
Police need politicians on side to increase their funding. To get elected and hold their positions politicians need large donations from corporations. Therefore police are going to do the damndest to help corporations.
I’m not even sure if this is corruption, it’s just reality
It’s a corrupt system.
No, the difference here is that the cops aren’t embarrassed if they fail to catch a poor person’s killer. The is headline news, the have to catch the guy.
I would be completely satisfied if they never find out who he was, and he lives the rest of his life in anonymous obscurity. In fact, I would be happier, since that highlights just how inept the thugs with badges are at their jobs.
NYPD in fuckin’ particular.
It does if it keeps happening. You’ll have a hard time replacing CEOs if the job comes with a target.
Well yeah, anything becomes impactful if a lot of people do it, but i think it’s litterally impossible for that many people to have the means and inclination to attempt assassinations. And if there are, every CEO will have security details long before this phenomenon comes close to actually having consequences. There’s a lot of countries where rich people live completely separate from the rest of society out of fear, it’s a thing that they can do.
Of course there would be a powerful message sent by rich people not being safe in the streets, but there’s all kinds of ways they can rationalize it before putting themselves into question.
Well, if they really need to take out their killing fantasy, better they go out against Hitler copycats as well then normal peiple
Tbh I feel like some CEOs do more damage than modern Nazis. Though it’s hard to compare a shit burger against a turd sandwich.
But it shouldn’t be okay for anyone to take out their killing fantasies against anyone. No matter how justified this particular killing might seem, this shit is a fuckin slippery slope.
We live in a society, that means we follow rules - even if there’s no enforcement. Rules like politeness, not grabbing whatever we want, not killing whoever offends us. Stuff like that. I’m not going to weep bitter tears of grief for this dead exploitative fuck, but if we let this stuff get normalised then it’s gonna be the KKK lynching people and mobs necklacing alleged sex offenders in the streets. And then none of our families are safe.
I have an unlikely, probably very dumb thought - if I was a foreign adversary who had been fucking with America for some time and wanted to start a collapse - maybe something like this would be the domino that would start all the rest falling. Especially after a contentious election, with lots of the left feeling helpless and angry. Like I say, I’m probably being dumb - but you gotta question everything.
The rich broke the contract. This is the closest most of us have ever seen in the way of justice against the upper classes. We all know there are two courts in the US. They shouldn’t have given themselves slaps on the wrist, and us the harshest punishments available if they didn’t want vigilantes.
True. They went on deying life saving claims like nothing had happened. Everyone knows the CEO is for show.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy [13 March 1962]
Sounds like the solution is to make non violent revolution possible!
First Past The Post voting artificially limits the number of viable political parties to two. I know people love to trash non voters, but they are a symptom of our mathematically flawed voting system. More viable political parties means a bigger portion of the electorate is represented by their options in the polls. More people will feel invested in the poltical process, that their voice was truly heard in the voting booth.
Given how… concerned… some are about 3rd party voters spoiling elections, electoral reform truly is the way forward. Believe it or not, telling people how to cast their vote is not the solution. We can solve the spoiler effect entirely at its source by changing how we vote. Then those concerned with the spoiler effect can stop freaking out at people for voting how they want. Think of the time they will save!
Fortunately there are many other more representative electoral systems we can use to better effect change. Replacing First-past-the-post voting will give people the freedom to vote for those who they feel best reflects their values and interests. All while still counting their vote against those they don’t want in public office.
How we vote is controlled at the state level, so we don’t need to wait for a miracle from the federal level to accomplish this much needed reform. In fact, a couple states have already passed electoral reform in their state. Alaska just passed a referendum to continue using Ranked Choice voting this last election actually.
Electoral reform isn’t just about the 3rd parties as well. The two legacy parties will be forced to compete on a equal playing field, and with no “safe states”. We should lessen the importance of any one party because this is not the United States of Republicans/Democrats. This is America. Everyone should be heard and included.
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
Thanks GPT
That’s clearly not LLM generated. It contains way too many human quirks. It’s just a long comment from someone passionate about this topic, ya dick.
So much for profits over people. The private security industry is going to explode.
Not the best way to tax the rich, but it’s definitely one way to have to pay money for being so rich. Immoral but progress I guess.
Nobody wants to hear it but every time they say “Kill the rich” I just laugh.
How many Billionaires and CEOs do you think have to die before qualified immunity is extended to private security and bodyguards? Simply because the politicians know that once the rich are fair game, they are right there next to them.
You want Cyberpunk corporate extraterritorial privilege? Because this is how we get it.
Nope I do not want that, but it seems like we can’t help but keep stumbling towards that end. Like it or lump it we are making that dystopian cyberpunk future a reality. I liked blade runner too but I don’t want to live in it.
Police already only exist to protect capital. I imagine these CEOs will all up their security detail, most of whom are ex cops. At some point, in some states, they may be able to contract the police for their protection.
You think it won’t happen/isn’t already happening anyway?
And the police already exists. The police’s primary job is protection of capital. If a strike happens, a business gets taken over by its workers, or squatters take over an unused home, etc, who comes in to protect the owners property?
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What’s nice about that is that there are only so many retired elite soldiers willing to work as private bodyguards. The more jobs available for them means they’ll all have to settle for a lower quality of skill.
