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A health insurance CEO was shot dead in the streets. It’s only one pitchfork but it’s still a pitchfork.

> health insurance CEO was shot dead in the streets

Middle manager from Minnesota scraping in at the very bottom of the 0.1% wealth line, in a system with power-law dynamics, is a high-profile mugging.

Yeah, there’s a good quote about how they don’t trust people to “eat the rich”, because what they’ll actually do is come at a bunch of doctors and lawyers while the real rich gets away relatively unscathed.

In the French revolution, mobs would smash textile shops to the dismay of the workers, string up the middle class owners, then drink the reagents and die.

and they are shocked when someone snaps and such things happen.

"for are we not generous gods?" --Most Billionaires

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