Then all the more reason to favor a reform to the system so that large companies can be restrained via due process. Everyone has a different idea of who the bad guys are, and many have very high priors that “they” are the ones responsible for all the problems, that “they” are unimpeded by the guardrails as well.
Tribalism makes information believable not because it is true, but because it is useful toward hurting the enemy. These feel the same from the inside. Hating UHC is a lot more justified than people on the Right hating LGBTQ+, by quite a large margin, but to give us the power to hunt down healthcare executives is a step toward giving them more power to hunt down LGBTQ+.
Oh absolutely. When I say warning shot, I mean wrt to large companies not resisting and not actively lobbying against the sorts of reforms that would let these issues get fixed without bloodshed. It was a choice by companies to dismantle or otherwise neuter substantially all of their oversight, I’m suggesting that was not a wise choice, insofar as the public no longer believes the govt is capable of stopping the misconduct, and worse, because this time violence seemed to work, and UHC did in fact back off as a result (ETA: Debatable if they responded directly to the violence vs to the open celebration of it by ~half the population).
Oh, okay! This is much clearer and I apologize for not getting your point the first time. I agree pretty much fully with this—insurance companies pushed the envelope until the pain got high enough that, sadly, a CEO lost his life without trial, and that poisoned the well and made it a lot harder on them going forward. It is debatable the exact cause of their retreat on this front, but I do agree more broadly with this.
Then all the more reason to favor a reform to the system so that large companies can be restrained via due process. Everyone has a different idea of who the bad guys are, and many have very high priors that “they” are the ones responsible for all the problems, that “they” are unimpeded by the guardrails as well.
Tribalism makes information believable not because it is true, but because it is useful toward hurting the enemy. These feel the same from the inside. Hating UHC is a lot more justified than people on the Right hating LGBTQ+, by quite a large margin, but to give us the power to hunt down healthcare executives is a step toward giving them more power to hunt down LGBTQ+.
Oh absolutely. When I say warning shot, I mean wrt to large companies not resisting and not actively lobbying against the sorts of reforms that would let these issues get fixed without bloodshed. It was a choice by companies to dismantle or otherwise neuter substantially all of their oversight, I’m suggesting that was not a wise choice, insofar as the public no longer believes the govt is capable of stopping the misconduct, and worse, because this time violence seemed to work, and UHC did in fact back off as a result (ETA: Debatable if they responded directly to the violence vs to the open celebration of it by ~half the population).
Oh, okay! This is much clearer and I apologize for not getting your point the first time. I agree pretty much fully with this—insurance companies pushed the envelope until the pain got high enough that, sadly, a CEO lost his life without trial, and that poisoned the well and made it a lot harder on them going forward. It is debatable the exact cause of their retreat on this front, but I do agree more broadly with this.
No worries; one of these days I’ll figure out how to get the idea out correctly the first time.