UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops - Just Part and Parcel of visiting a Big City

[neger psykolog]

I don't know. I don't like seeing anyone die. I bet a lot of gamers on here would pretty upset if Gaben got shot. Maybe people should have more value for human life but that's a pretty bold ask nowadays I guess.

Gaben: runs a game marketplace and generally does well to most people. Pretty much generally liked by most of the population. Makes mistakes sometimes. Isn't perfect.

Healthcare/health insurance CEO: Literally operates a business which at a fundamental level dictates "the value of human life". Yes, these health insurance companies will literally have a dollar value at which a life isn't worth saving anymore.

I get your point but we can't pretend there isn't an irony or cosmic humor in him being the person involved in deciding the literal dollar cost of a human life and getting killed.

 

[talk talk talk]

Yeah, I guess you're right. But I think it comes down to the fact if they didn't do it the other health insurance companies would and they'd lose money and ultimately it just comes down to the fact that America has poor health care.

"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."

(attributed to) Dorothy Day

 

[Punished Magician]

I’m not sure how anyone can live [...] in these companies.

Well, they can, just not for very long : )

 

[FedPostalService]

DSP outlives another! How does he do it?

 

[Google.com]

human life

Major Healthcare company CEO
Human

Pick one

 

[Ginger & Bread = Mischief]

Major Healthcare company CEO
Human

Pick one

Would you turn down the position if you were offered it?

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Major Healthcare company CEO
Human

Pick one

Even worse, health insurer. Literal rent-seeking parasites.

 

[Xev]

Sounds like good news to me. If more of these "people" had the threat of the Grim Reaper breathing down their neck, then maybe they wouldn't behave like such psychotic assholes.

Psychopaths don't learn lessons, they double down

 

[Tacgnol]

Never understood why this kind of thing didn't happen in 2008 instead of scads of hippies shitting in parks.

 

[Google.com]

Would you turn down the position if you were offered it?

No, I would take it and intentionally run the company into the ground before being sent to white collar prison for some bullshit

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Would you turn down the position if you were offered it?

I've always wondered how easy it is to destroy a company as CEO ...

 

[CharlesBarkley]

"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."

(attributed to) Dorothy Day

What's the alternative? Every other country is shit. If there is no private option, obese niggers and Reddit people will actually have a harder time getting their "life-threatening emergencies" treated and will just clog up the line further if the feds run it. If people demand a carrier to pay for everything, they will go insolvent. Then all the current policyholders are mega fucked as they wait for whatever other far more shitty carrier takes the claim overflow and gets backed up for months.

 

[Captain Manning]

I have United Healthcare. It sucks. No tears for this guy.

I don't know. I don't like seeing anyone die. I bet a lot of gamers on here would pretty upset if Gaben got shot. Maybe people should have more value for human life but that's a pretty bold ask nowadays I guess.

Nigger, there's a BIG difference between a (mis)Managed Health Care company and fucking Steam. Health care is a necessity. Vidya is a nice thing to have.

What you just said is dumb.

What's next? Anime studios are equivalent to agriculture?

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Would you turn down the position if you were offered it?

I physically could not do a worse job than my current employer's CEO even if I tried so hey why not.

 

[Silly Milly]

I don't know. I don't like seeing anyone die. I bet a lot of gamers on here would pretty upset if Gaben got shot. Maybe people should have more value for human life but that's a pretty bold ask nowadays I guess.

Gaben makes fun games and has a platform that made games easier and cheaper for people to enjoy, why the fuck would anyone go after him. Meanwhile healthcare in this country is notoriously bad and the shooter might’ve had to watch their loved one die a preventable death while they got automated denials for their coverage.

 

[Ginger & Bread = Mischief]

Gaben makes fun games and has a platform that made games easier and cheaper for people to enjoy, why the fuck would anyone go after him. Meanwhile healthcare in this country is notoriously bad and the shooter might’ve had to watch their loved one die a preventable death while they got automated denials for their coverage.

Yeah, sorry, I'm just tired I guess. I don't think you have to get upset over it but it's just not something I would cheer on personally I guess.

 

[Drama Trauma]

Was he insured against assassination? If he did, was the contract signed two week before?

 

[Cat tit bingo]

I have been informed that it is inadvisable to state my true opinion on this matter.

 

[Silly Milly]

Yeah, sorry, I'm just tired I guess. I don't think you have to get upset over it but it's just not something I would cheer on personally I guess.

I see where you’re coming from, I’m not some diehard down with capitalism idiot. We do need some CEOs and in fact Gabe Newell is a good example of how some people can create cool companies that benefit us.

I’m not really either way about this, people die every day. Which I think is probably the best reaction here. I’m not going to feel especially sorry for a guy because he’s important when many innocent and helpless people die just because they’re poor or insignificant. I’d sure love it if someone wrote an article about me if I was murdered, but I doubt it.

 

[SpellforceFan]

Hope the same happens to more CEOs and corpo executives.