United Healthcare's stock is down 60% since the incident. United Healthcares board and new CEOs lowered the rejection rate of patients out of fear as well. Say what you want about the morality of what was done. The efficacy speaks for itself

if that continues to happen, trust me, eventually none of these fuckers will be left in line.

Kemp is alive and governing Georgia as far as I know but I'm happy to be corrected if that's wrong. You may be thinking of Brian Thompson who involuntarily resigned his position as the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on a NYC sidewalk.

Yup. After 9/11 for a while it seemed every week or two the news would report that "The leader of Al Qaeda" had just been killed or captured. Not a false statement, yet it happened again the next week.

Yeah, kinda like that time Brian Thompson got shot, and the next day United Healthcare ceased to exist.

Their HP definitely went down. And, anecdotally, I heard from a pharmacist friend that they were approving claims like nobody's business for the next day or so

... So kill the entire board.

That'd probably make a more uh, substantial material impact on their bottom line.

Oh, they keep doing evil shit with a new board?

... repeat.

Or, I guess you can just either ... well, either try to run away and hide, pray to the normalcy bias gods that one of these days the legal systems they own will do something against them, or just resign yourself to a kind of smug, self defeating moral solace in being doomed, but being right while being doomed.

There is also a societal dependance on some of the status quo. The bigger issue is how hard they actively resist the change. A lot of places still rely on trucking at a minimum to fill the groccery store with food wrapped in plastic, most of which is powered or made by fossil fuels. We need to electrify and diversifying but they cling to oil and have way too much power in governmental decisions to prevent or reverse any reduction in dependance for their products.

The way in which Luigi was arrested is part of their safety checks. A way to motivate working class to turn people in, without paying them. I generally thought reward money worked.

I learned it did not work from a podcast that no longer exists. Michael Bazzel’s OSINT podcast talked about it within the context of people who used OSINT to find people on wanted lists and how reward money collection actually works. (Podcast doesn’t exist any more, the copies of the casts went away with the podcast.). Sadly, there’s no replacement for this type of news and info condensed down into one place. It’s also a niche area of information, not followed by many.

Those McDonald's workers were not paid for turning Luigi in. But they thought they would be.

Even so, look at the bigger picture. How many Luigi’s have there been since 1981?

Most people avoid confrontation, spending most of their days sitting in a chair or lying down, and thinking/hoping/wishing a white knight is going to rescue them from their situation. It’s one reason why so many people exist in bad relationships (1 or a chain of them). Because they think that other person is going to rescue them from their sad days of avoiding confrontation while sitting in a chair or lying down, most of the day for most of their days. Hoping. But never doing. Thinking about doing. Maybe spouting off on the internet about doing. But never doing.

But there isn't a "demand" at least not as much as years ago. We are trying to switch to renewables but the oil execs keep killing the renewable progress. The horse fucker in the white house won't let us move on. He kills wind and solar and forces the coal plants to stay open.

They aren't talking about expecting change. They are talking about demanding change at gunpoint, and honestly I can't say I'm entirely opposed.

These people are completely unaffected by the law or any other form of consequences. They have removed our capability to peacefully take action, but the less-peaceful option is always there and there are legions more of us.

What's your best, longest-lived example of a society without capitalism? Do you have any?

By capitalism, I mean

"private individuals or companies that own and control businesses and property", the simplest definition of capitalism

Never underestimate the power of inertia. Some people live their entire lives on it.

Ok, but can we put AI in it somehow?

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We stop the oil propaganda. Without that, we do gradually stop using oil, because the alternatives are

• cheaper
• easier to obtain
• do not need dependency on Russia/middle east, which are both politically toxic