UnitedHealthcare threatening to sue Dr. Elisabeth Potter MD for her Instagram video and the comments supporting Luigi it received. This video discussing the time she was interrupted in the middle of a patient’s surgery by a United representative to ask whether the patient really needed to stay overnight to recover.
Reminds me of the French Revolution. Big changes like that were attained through violence. We’ve rightfully pushed away from violence to become a better society, but it is clear that the changes we want will not be obtained with likes and TikTok dances (or comments like this, ironically). The rich and powerful do not fear the people anymore because of this. People can strike all they want but the elites have learned that they just need to sit and wait (see Gilets Jaunes French protests or Iranian protests) because no one will even dare punch them in the face. Luigi was an exception and they are trying to flag this as a one time incident.
All of this is sickening, to be honest.
Violence never solved anything, unless you look at all of human history.
Just about every good societal change only happened after massive violence. Even in the case of nonviolent movements like Gandhi’s Indian independence movement, he probably wouldn’t have been successful if the state had responded non-violently. The massive violence inflicted on his movement is what drew international attention, forcing the British to change.
A handful of CEOs getting shot in the head might be seen as a small warning sign that things need to change. If that change doesn’t happen, the result might be the kind of chaos you got with the French Revolution.
Say you’re a French aristocrat in Grenoble, hit by a flying roof tile. Is the smart move to get a bunch of soldiers to go round up as many civilians as possible and torture them to figure out who threw the tile? Or is the smart move to head back to your estate set your serfs free, give them some of your stuff, and ask them to please spread the word that you’re one of the good aristocrats and a man of the people?