The attack on the 50-year-old executive—allegedly by the now 27-year-old Luigi Mangione—immediately sparked an outpouring of public fury not at the gunman, but at UnitedHealthcare itself.
The attack on the 50-year-old executive—allegedly by the now 27-year-old Luigi Mangione—immediately sparked an outpouring of public fury not at the gunman, but at UnitedHealthcare itself.
The main goal is also not helping people. The goal is money. Helping people is a side effect. If those corporations were to have more difficulty finding people to work those jobs because people find them morally repugnant, then the business would do worse, and another system could take its place. As it is, you are helping to entrench their position while wailing that NOT doing that would be SO HARD!!
That doesn’t make any sense. The level of outrage that would be required to pull off what you’re describing is far higher than what would be required to change the system through other means.
If people can’t come together to vote for healthcare reform, do you honestly think there’s any chance that a workers’ strike will spontaneously break out? It’s not an actionable plan. The practical outcome of me quitting is that my life and my family’s life gets worse. That’s it. There’s no benefit to anyone.
And yeah, it is fucking hard. I’m in my 40s with crippling ADHD and a narrow skillset. My wife has a similarly severe physical handicap, so I’m working my ass off every day to give my kids a healthy, happy childhood, bringing them to daycare and school, cooking healthy meals, and trying to give them a safe, loving environment to grow up in while the world crumbles into fascism around me.
I’ve worked at “hard” jobs. I’ve woken up at dawn just to get my kids ready, just so I can work all day and pick them up at sunset, just so I can get home, cook dinner, and get them to bed, never at any point having a chance to spend a minute of quality time with them.
I’m lucky and grateful to have a job that allows me a good work-life balance.
This purity test is bullshit, and I think it comes from a place of privilege and inexperience. You’re unironically being the “Yet you live in a society. Curious!” meme right now.
Look you self important twat, I’m not saying it’s the full responsibility of every worker to personally topple the system. Idk why that is what you took from my comment. I am saying that if the gestapo couldn’t get people to work for them, it wouldn’t have been a very effective force. Same here. It doesn’t need to be a fucking strike. Get a different job. It’s that simple. “Oh but it’s hard! I don’t have any time to look for a job! I don’t have any skills!” Bullshit. There no fucking way that healthcare is the only thing in this planet that you can do. You just don’t actually care about the very real harm that is being done by your actions because it is abstracted and far away.
Well if that’s how you are, then I don’t even want to be your friend anymore.