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Do you think United Health Care is going to have trouble finding a replacement CEO? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 52 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Imagine holding the title of "CEO of the healthcare company whose CEO got fucking iced last week"

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They literally don't care. They aren't like us. They don't care what working class people think. They don't care if we suffer. They don't care if they die. We aren't worth anything to them beyond what they can extort from us.

    "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

    --Jay Gould

    This statement reflects Gould's view of exploiting divisions within the labor force to maintain control and suppress labor movements during the Gilded Age. Their attitude since then hasn't changed, except to become even further entrenched in their apathetic greed.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To be fair, "president of the country whose president got iced last week" is a common enough job. In fact by murders per capita I heard US president is the most dangerous job in the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "In fact" and "I heard" don't go well together in a sentence. Unless you're saying it's a fact that you've heard it of course.

    Also, sorry for the pedantry.

    Also, just to give a source, 8 US presidents have died during office, which results in a mortality rate of about 18%. That is of course way higher than any other job.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Fair point. I suppose internally I meant "in fact" as a shorthand for, "here's an interesting thing that complements or counters what we were talking about," and "I heard" to qualify my (lack of) certainty, without going into detail about where I got the information and quite how trustworthy it might or might not be. (Incidentally, it was on QI.)

    Thanks for the source :-)

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