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I don't either, really, but CEOs are under pressure from the board of directors and investors to constantly and relentlessly increase profits. If it wasn't that Thompson asshole, it would have just been another one. It's not one evil man, it's the whole system.
The system requires evil men to do that job. You can say it'd just be another, but they'll run out of them pretty quick if there are consequences to their actions
Oh, I agree. But the consequences are usually in the form of big bonuses for the perpetrators. The law protects them. We have to scrap the system.
I meant like Luigi consequences. Maybe a French shave
Or we could just pass a law mandating that they have to approve any request made by a doctor unless they can show clear evidence of fraud.
This will probably cause a collapse of most of the health insurance industry, which shouldn't exist in its current form anyway.
Don't give them an "unless". They do it first. Then if there is fraud their lawyers can litigate later.
Bernie Sanders Universal Healthcare Mandate: Am I a joke to you?
Ok then get a different job. All problems solved.
This is some bullshit, nobody is out there forcing people to be healthcare CEOs
Too easy.
"Shareholders" is, purposefully, an abstract notion. CEO's and C-Suite in general are the willful instruments of evil.
It’s actually really easy to not be a shitbag healthcare CEO. I’m doing it right now, in fact! And so are you! Anyone doing that has actively chosen to do so. They don’t have to.
“I was just following orders.”
"Greed is good."
"There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game."
Fuck Milton Friedman. Do I think he makes cold logical sense? Yes, but that's precisely the problem, his philosophy is devoid of warmth and humanity. His ideas are what led to where we are now. Friedman is the AI agentic machine in the flesh if put in charge. Now that i think about it, he's probably the Terminator but instead of using physical violence to achieve results, he's using cold logical argument to convince others that "greed is good" and to abandon social responsibility, leading to suffering caused by administrative decisions.
The problem isn't that he's cold and logical. Cold? Yes. Logical? Only in the context of the game we are playing. This reasoning is not logical when applied to a society. Society is not a game. Life is not a game. Business IS a game and the principle of that game is stone simple. The problem is seeing the game and society as the same thing. They aren't. That is why you don't ever want to run a government like a business. A business is much simpler.
You're right, it's the billionaires at the top, plus everyone who supports or defends them.
You can't make me feel sorry for him.
Then we should start taking out more of them.