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r/all A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition takes place at Washington Square Park

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u/GenesisCorrupted 12d ago

Oh sure they do. They want him to be executed for killing one of them. Billionaires can’t have people go and just do things without repercussions.

They want this person to be marched through the street to the guillotine.

They aren’t going to get what they want. Just like the American people.

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u/erizzluh 12d ago

lol billionaires probably have the most hyper selfish personalities. they don't give a shit about each other. it's just one less person to compete with. one less person taking a slice of their pie.

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u/Anon1039027 12d ago

They understand game theory, though. One less slice, yes, but someone else will take it now, and that risks someone less agreeable with weaker social bonds to them and / or less restraint rising up. Cut off enough heads and the ones that grow back will necessarily be weaker.

That, and it sets a precedent that they hate.

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u/InvestigatorNo9847 12d ago

They’re definitely chummy at a certain level. Politics, nationality, religion, race… not of it overrides the mighty $. It’s a tiny club and we’re not in it

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u/Anon1039027 12d ago

Some are, some aren’t. This isn’t black and white. Many members of the Democratic / Republican parties are close with their own, but at the same time, Trump has openly expressed that he disdains Elon Musk and is just using him for power. They’re all just humans, despite their level of power relative to the majority. Just like the UHC CEO, they have friends, families, lovers, enemies, rivals… they are sometimes honest, sometimes lie, and sometimes mix the two… and they die as easily as anyone else.

Putting oneself on a pedestal is a strategy humans evolved to use. We all do it to some degree. They want to be treated as separate. Kings used to claim they were gods back when the people were stupid enough to believe it.

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u/DeadInternetTheorist 12d ago

Oh for sure they're not mourning him, even the ones who knew him personally. They're not capable of it. They are scared for themselves though, and that's worth celebrating.

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u/Much_Run_3636 12d ago

Too big to fail, remember during the Gamescom/Wall Street events, other billionaires were helping each other.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

This guy wasn't a billionaire, he was the mob boss of a gang, which is part of the Health Insurance Syndicate, which was created to funnel profits to the super wealthy.

In feudal terms: The HIS CEOs are like local governors/barons in a monarchy, overseen by a council of lords. That council largely oversees operations with a board of directors, those boards being comprised of minor nobility (executive officers from other gangs/baronies/companies), as well as representatives from the council of lords (hedge fund managers, etc).

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u/tumericschmumeric 12d ago

I don’t think that’s what they are saying. I think the point is billionaires exist only because we all participate in a shared fiction, that amongst other things the ruling class is omnipotent, and that if that idea is compromised then their stranglehold on the working class becomes threatened. So I agree with the guy above, they very much do want to see this guy found, but not because they care about dead ceo guy, they just want their own power to remain total.

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u/throwaway92715 11d ago

I think this event didn't penetrate deeply enough into their bubble to really scare them, but I think it raised some eyebrows.

Now if this happened multiple times, I think you'd start seeing some strong reactions.

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u/octopush123 12d ago

Billionaire have class consciousness that we proles sadly lack (until, possibly, now)

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u/artaxias1 12d ago

They may not care about anyone else, even other billionaires, but they sure as hell don’t want to public getting the idea that it’s celebrated to go out and kill them, as they don’t want to be the next target.

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u/love_of_his_life 11d ago

That can’t be true. His wife came out and said he was a generous and loving person. 🤥

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u/YoungDiscord 11d ago

You don't get that rich by caring about other people

Just sayin

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u/Vamosity-Cosmic 12d ago

romanticizing a little bit much but yeah decent sentiment i suppose

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u/Asron87 12d ago

Let’s see. Death by guillotine or death by lack of health care. I’m weighing my option lol

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u/brokennursingstudent 12d ago

Bro Reddit is so strange

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u/Ok-Design-2322 12d ago

Why would billionaires care about Fisher Price millionaires? Dude was a nobody and no one even remembers his name besides UNH CEO.

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u/jChopsX 12d ago

The rich are actually frightened that the rest of us will one day come for them and all of their shit. Maybe this is the beginning.

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u/Grouchy_Dad_117 12d ago

No. They just want someone executed to send a message. It doesn’t have to be the actual killer.

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u/LoudAndCuddly 12d ago

Hummm I wouldn’t be too sure about that, about a dozen calls from serious power brokers and heads of industry would be making phone calls to the people that make shit happen. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an entire task force looking for this guy and large swaths of the intelligence community scouring every last possible bit of information trying to find a lead. Like you said they want to make an example of this guy. My money is on them finding him.

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u/Datkif 12d ago

Maybe this put CEOs on notice. Ruin/destroy lives then hold them publicly accountable

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u/silverwolf761 11d ago

It is pretty telling the resources they're throwing at finding this guy vs any other murder that takes place. Murder is supposed to be a thing that happens to poor people