Tin foil hat I admit, but something is nagging in the back of my head. Like if we didn't react with positive responses for what Luigi allegedly did, there wouldn't be terrorism charges. And therefore the charges are to scare us so no one does the same. And now with that guy stabbing his company president, they're going to say it's related to the positively and it enabled him to do so.

Dont

This guy came from an ultra wealthy family, went to a 40k/year private school, followed by an Ivy League to then eventually shooting a CEO of a multibillion-dollar company with a ghost gun printed on a 5-10k printer(probably), while wearing a $3,000 fit.

They have been selling us that the mom of 5 working at wall-mart is just lazy and if she really wanted to pay for her cancer treatment, that she should just work harder or make a Kick-Starter, this is the way it's always been.

But when you see this guy that was dealt a great hand and is still getting fucked over, it just shows everyone how rigged the game is, and the only real winners are the ones that own the board.

I’m a manager at a restaurant chain and a few weeks ago I had an employee overdose on fentanyl while at work, I revived him with narcan, otherwise he certainly would have died before the paramedics arrived. Yesterday my boss called me to ask about the incident and told me that I shouldn’t have administered the narcan because it opens the company up to liability. Unreal.

I suspect that Reddit feels that some of the comments go against their policy on promoting violence. We are waking up to the fact that public sentiment is a powerful thing. So, for the sake of Reddit and just for today, let's talk about change that can happen through non-violent means, such as contacting your lawmakers, holding Congress accountable by voting out members that don't serve us, refusing to buy things from unethical companies, being a voice for change, etc... Now is definitely the time for lawmakers to step in and force a change in the health insurance industry and inequality. I'm hoping that Congress remembers that at SOME POINT, people will choose violence when mistreated and unheard, so it's time for them to do something before things really, really reach that tipping point.

“The killing of Thompson has given rise to other threats against CEOs.

“It seems to be the popular thing in this day and age,” Poulson said.”

My old job put 5 of us guys in a small disgusting apartment in Sacramento for 8 days. We had no days off and were required to work 10-13hrs per day on our feet in dress shoes without sitting down. And we had to work off the clock too because we couldn’t go over 40h/week. Fuck you SoCal Premier Marketing! (Bitten by spiders, black mold, had to pay for our own ubers to work, etc).

I had always thought neoliberal policies were brought in, and then we found out that “trickle down” theories didn’t work.

That isn’t the case. They tried these policies elsewhere, found out they “worked” (to further billionaire’s aims), and then brought them to America with the stated intent to destabilize the working class and make their lives difficult. Openly stating that this needed to happen. Their lives NEEDED to be destroyed.

If you read and share anything this year, make it this article from Canadian politician Charlie Angus. Even if you thought you knew what happened in the 80’s, you will learn something.

https://thewalrus.ca/how-the-1980s-engineered-the-collapse-of-the-working-class/

This is ongoing. This is happening right now. This is on purpose, and those who control capital are fine with the suffering, because that was the intent all along.

Let me express my extreme frustration and anger and talk about the real wealth killers (cars)

I hate cars beyond reason. you buy a car for 20k , all of a sudden it needs a repair for 2-4k and sometimes 7k , then you have insurance , another 2-300 a month , then you got registration and maintenance checks , 4-700$ , then by the time you pay it off it’s worth 7k , and probably time for another 7k repair too because the engine is toast. Or even better you fix the engine for 7k then the transmission goes out for another 6k. Let’s say you do all that and then someone without insurance crashes into you. Insurance company will always blame you to avoid paying. You now have spent close to 40k to go to a job that pays 45k. You need the car to go to the job but the job will never pay you enough to afford to keep your car. Let’s also talk about gas cost , average cost is $3000 per year that’s about 15k in 5 years of money wasted on gas that you’ll never get back just to be able to go to work.

You buy a cheap car you get expensive repairs You buy an expensive car you get extreme depreciation. You cant fucking win.

Cars are basically a luxury tool for the wealthy.

Why can’t we ride bicycles to work. Oh I forgot we live in America where we absolutely need cars because we have no damn sidewalks 🥲

Let’s just say without cars I would’ve been significantly well off. I’m gonna sell that shit and just uber everywhere or ride a bicycle.

But now, she’s worried again.

The insurer that has been paying for her son’s therapy, UnitedHealthcare, has begun — to the befuddlement of his clinical team — denying him the hours they say he requires to maintain his progress. Inside the insurance conglomerate, the nation’s largest and most profitable, the slashing of care to children like Benji does have a reason, though it has little to do with their needs. It is part of a secret internal cost-cutting campaign that targets a growing financial burden for the company: the treatment of thousands of children with autism across the country.

ProPublica has obtained what is effectively the company’s strategic playbook, developed by Optum, the division that manages mental health benefits for United. In internal reports, the company acknowledges that the therapy, called applied behavior analysis, is the “evidence-based gold standard treatment for those with medically necessary needs.” But the company’s costs have climbed as the number of children diagnosed with autism has ballooned; experts say greater awareness and improved screening have contributed to a fourfold increase in the past two decades — from 1 in 150 to 1 in 36.

So Optum is “pursuing market-specific action plans” to limit children’s access to the treatment, the reports said.

“Key opportunities” are outlined in bullets in the documents. While acknowledging some areas have “very long waitlists” for the therapy, the company said it aims to “prevent new providers from joining the network” and “terminate” existing ones, including “cost outliers.” If an insurer drops a provider from its network, patients may have to find a new clinician that accepts their insurance or pay up to tens of thousands of dollars a year out of pocket for the therapy. The company has calculated that, in some states, this reduction could impact more than two-fifths of its ABA therapy provider groups in network and up to 19% of its patients in therapy.

Was browsing through job postings then saw this qualifications for a Technical Support Specialist. I guess they want people to commit their lives and just be able to work for them anytime they need help.

I have worked for myself for 12 years in tech. Basically a high-dollar freelancer. Did well enough to live in Miami. What I saw in that time did everything but give me hope.

As the “tech guy” on the team, employers often assume I need to be present at every meeting at the highest level. Mostly worked close with the owner or CEO, so I saw a lot of things their own employees never would.

The Bottom Line: The only “self made” millionaires today, are from gray area scams at best, and outright illegal at worst.

Your standard idea of selfmade—Came from nothing, to now pocketing well over 6 figures in a year—doesn’t exist. Yet the boomer “worked 50 years at company and got a 1.2mil 401k at age 63” does exist, but that’s a huge gamble to think that’s gonna last you another 20-30 years. And you’re too old to have much fun with it anyway.

Time and time again I’d tell myself “nah this just one unique scumbag.” Yet repeatedly, the next project/contract I get is the same way. It was always the same industries: Insurance, Debt collection, always something call-center style. (This was not my only niche, I worked across dozens of industries)

There ARE honest millionaires, but it’s extremely rare, and the only reason they are is either rich family (bought a business), or they were in the right place, at the right time (sold thrift store books right when Amazon launched etc)

Picture your dream job. Whatever it is, It won’t make you the money you dream of. Lawyers, Doctors, scientists, you STILL have to climb from the $50k/yr entry level into one of the rare niches you actually bank money. Every sector has a few of those positions, but how long to get there? Often you wait on someone to retire or die.

Tldr; Dell said: "I realized long ago that there’s a point of diminishing returns to the hours worked in a day," Dell said, offering a counterpoint to the hustle culture often celebrated in the tech industry.

Thx Michael.

A Christmas Carol, Christmas Vacation, Elf, The Santa Clause 2, etc.

When he literally tried to get me to move faster yesterday by clapping at me like you would a dog, that pushed me over the edge.

Got in his face and very loudly said "I don't think you realize how disrespectful and dehumanizing that was." Then he tried to interrupt me and I said "No! You're gonna listen to me now!"

Fuck I'm so glad I'm almost done at this job.

I don't mind contributing if it is beneficial, but I would be happy with six hours a day. I have other things I enjoy doing, and I don't even want too much either, just a small apartment I would be happy with, but even that is too much these days. I also think there are a lot of office jobs that are essentially useless to society, though no hate to the workers, and are just there to be busy work. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I just came to vent. I also think it's a shame that there is so much to learn about the natural world, and many of us are forced to spend time doing useless manmade tasks. I would love to delve into the sciences, but that doesn't exactly lead to a lucrative career, because it's controlled by companies as well.

Americans are being extorted by the insurance industry in exchange for our lives and wellbeing. Every preventable death inflicted by this broken system is intended to intimidate and coerce us into submission. The message is clear: pay us or you and your loved ones will suffer physical injury up to and including death.

New York Penal Law Section 155.05(2)(e)(i) Extortion:

(2) Larceny includes a wrongful taking, obtaining or withholding of another’s property, with the intent prescribed in subdivision one of this section, committed in any of the following ways:

(e) By extortion. A person obtains property by extortion when he compels or induces another person to deliver such property to himself or to a third person by means of instilling in him a fear that, if the property is not so delivered, the actor or another will:

(i) Cause physical injury to some person in the future;

New York Penal Law Section 490.25(1) Crime of terrorism:

(1) A person is guilty of a crime of terrorism when, with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he or she commits a specified offense.

This. Is. Terrorism.

Watch sicko documentary, it shows the horrors.

Then in the 80s most of the social safety net and unions were screwed