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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 68 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most definitely, he isn't the unibomber largely indiscriminately killing people based on some ideological manifesto, he targeted someone in charge of driving many families into bankruptcy if not outright murdering patients with denials, and targeted a problem that many know to be true. They may be trying to rewrite the legacy of the CEO, but he was not "one of the good guys".

Although there is some crossover to the unibomber's manifesto, in the sense that where this would have been the breaking point in societies of the past waiting for a revolution, the new means of control and technology is being used to keep it under control, from all sides, even and specially those that abused social networks to put Trump in power. Can't have the status quo of "[I can] stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody [but not you]" challenged.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Most definitely, he isn’t the unibomber largely indiscriminately killing people based on some ideological manifesto, he targeted someone in charge of driving many families into bankruptcy if not outright murdering patients with denials, and targeted a problem that many know to be true.

By my math, Brian Robert Thompson killed 40,000 people.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes and, board members are the ones enabling the CEOs. They need to be targeted as well.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of overlap.

In recent years, around 30% of newly appointed board members in the S&P 500 have been active or retired CEOs.

And:

CEOs and directors with financial backgrounds constitute 59% of the incoming class of S&P 500 directors...

Source, for whatever it's worth. I admittedly just did a cursory Google search out of curiosity and that's what popped up, but I had a feeling it'd be a significant percentage.