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What is Your Life Worth?
If millions of people are glad you’re dead, you’re doing something wrong.
So, the CEO of UnitedHealth, Brian Thompson, has been assassinated. In response, the public pages of CEOs for healthcare insurance companies around the world have vanished. Executives are clamoring to hire private security firms. The aura of fear is palpable.
The victims of men like Brian Thompson live with fear every day. The only difference is: our society collectively gives exactly zero fucks about the ordinary person struggling to pay their medical bills. The mass media, our politicians, our law-enforcement… they step into high gear when a man worth millions is murdered, but can’t be found when the actions of men like Brian create untold suffering for millions of American citizens every year. It looks to me like our society only cares about one type of “million”: the greenback.
What is your life worth compared to Brian Thompson? If someone stalked you, or me, and murdered us, would there be public outcry? Would a massive manhunt be under way?
Why is your life worth less than Brian’s?
Because I don’t think your life’s value should be based on your net worth. I don’t think that you should have to watch your loved ones suffer through grotesque illnesses just so men like Brian…
