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A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the big lies that the elites tell themselves is that anyone and everyone of merit with be lifted to their rightful station in society. They need this illusion because otherwise, they'll have to face the fact that their success is just based on birth circumstances. They latched on the the few working class slobs that somehow navigate up the rungs of society.

But what exactly did Brian Thompson achieve with his success? Did he funnel his excess wealth back to the community he came from? No, he just accumulated wealth like all the rest.

Also, pretty sure he was cheating on his wife and doing insider trading, which checks out with the elites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If we really have a society where everyone is lifted to their rightful station... Then someone really needs to explain to me why anyone is homeless? Why any child goes hungry? Your average trailer park and 50 bucks in Food Stamps is still well below what the worst of us deserves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If you ask the elites, it is because "Because you're all lazy bas'!".

It's their prosperity gospel. They think that being poor is a sign that you've lived a sinful, wrongful life and their wealth is a sign that they've lived a righteous life. Why do you think whenever some poor person(or immigrate) commits a heinous crime, mainsteam media puts them on blast, but when a CEO does something that can be calculated to cause may times more harm, it's ignore or even praised?

What's worse? A single rape committed by a vagrant or a health insurance company denying 100 rape kits? What's going to get more coverage on the nightly news? I'm sure those news anchors believe that they're where they are purely though their individual merit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, what? You have to pay for your own rape kit? JFC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

This is another example of how America operates along with health insurance.

They created these systems that on their face appears "normal" but the moment you need them, they don't work at all

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Chef 1 points 16 hours ago

Looks like boot is back on the menu, boys.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Yeah, this rural kid from Iowa grew up to be an evil parasite on society. This isn't the flex you think it is.

[–] [email protected] 221 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When one of the first things you mention about him is "$280B of revenue" as though that's a good thing in the context of health insurance, yeah, fuck you.

[–] agamemnonymous 43 points 1 day ago (8 children)

That much revenue isn't, by itself, the bad part. Revenue is just how much you take in from your sales. If they had minimal overhead and paid the majority of that out to claims, that would be fine (in the context of our existing healthcare system). The problem is the profit, how much of that $280B goes into the company's pockets instead of claim payouts.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (4 children)

By the same logic, let me introduce you to the story of a young man rising from a failed Austrian artist to a national hero…

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He also had a very nice dog! No monster would ever have a nice dog!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A vegetarian, jailed for his beliefs, and bullied mercilessly until he tragically took his own life.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I love how "overseeing $280B of revenue" is supposed to be some indicator of the guy's goodness. "Wealth = virtue" indeed.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It was reported that he didn't even live with his wife. If that's true, why are we talking about his failed family?

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[–] [email protected] 189 points 1 day ago (8 children)

They forgot to mention that his wife and he separated in 2018, keeping it secret for years. It was revealed after his death.

Not that I think there's anything bad about being separated/divorced, but it'd be a lie to paint him as a family man.

I guess his criminal record for drunk driving also doesn't fit the narrative.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Someone else also pointed out there is exactly one photo being passed around of Brian Thompson. You would think they would find more family oriented photos to push the narrative

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This example shows how media is your enemy...

They spin the facta for the owner class, every single time

And it works too. Well until this dead piece of shit... Something changed hopefully

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Where's his mugshot for, you know, profiting off the deaths of countless victims?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I hope the media will speak about luigi mangiones parents and his love interest once he is punished by the law.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

He represented everything right and good in America?

Death to America then.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Oh! Oh! Do Hitler next! Talk about how he served his country in war, how he was a painter and a successful politician and then leave out the "other details" about him.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Born to humble means. His father, a selfless civil servant. His mother, a simple homemaker. They were probably really proud when he was appointed Verbindungsmann of an Aufklärungskommando of the Reichswehr.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago

Fuck him even more then. Since he comes from humble beginnings he should know what it's like not being rich, but he just decided to be a greedy asshole.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, the American dream. Making billions by siphoning the blood-money from the dying you denies Healthcare to.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Anyone who comes from humble beginnings should understand the struggle of the common man, and have empathy.

If you come from humble beginnings and then work your way up into a position of tremendous power, and then think "I've made my fortune now, so fuck the poors" then that's EVEN WORSE, not better!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Robert Sterling CFO | M&A and Strategy Advisor

Mergers and Acquisitions… Another soulless capitalist whose only purpose is to:

  1. Perform leveraged hostile buyouts of solid companies with ‘struggling stock value’, gut them head to toe for any value, and leave the husk behind, or
  2. Join two corporations together whilst sneaking as much monopolistic structure past anti-trust regulations they can get away with
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could make a similar feel good post about basically any evil person in history. It's pretty easy when you ignore the evil things they do

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a bizarre thing to detail the man's entire life EXCEPT the part that was evil as if it somehow is irrelevant.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

This country is just a fascist corporatist shithole nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago

Decent men don’t leverage suffering for profit.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What do you expect from a CFO of mergers and acquisitions? They’re more inhuman than healthcare execs, if that’s possible, since their entire job is to buy companies and fire people, thus leaving them completely without insurance.

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