There will be more:
There will be more.
More CEOs.
More executives.
More rich folks targeted.
The United Health Insurance CEO was gunned down last week.
Rather than the normal reaction to murder, people online were celebrating.
Celebrating the demise of a man who ran one of the largest insurance providers in the US.
Last year they made 22 billion in profit.
Billion.
All for the executives and shareholders.
The CEO and his executives were also being prosecuted for insider trading.
One day he and his buddies sold millions of stock.
Next day the company cratered.
As per capitalism, they’re just doing their job.
Denying thousands to millions of health insurance claims for life-saving medicines.
All for more money.
Spoke to a doctor friend of mine last week.
He’s in a Facebook group with a bunch of doctors in the US.
When the news broke that he died, a bunch of them were not upset.
They weren’t happy, but they weren’t sad.
As he said ‘I’m not saying someone getting murdered is a bad thing, BUT…’
But.
This but.
A lot of people feel the same way.
Look at what Blue Cross Blue Shield did quickly after.
They were changing a policy to cover the cost of an anesthetic for surgery if the surgery went longer than the original time.
Imagine this.
You have a 2 hour knee surgery.
Unfortunately something goes wrong.
Your doctor needs to keep you under for longer.
Instead now the surgery takes 4 hours.
You wake up with groggy with tons of pain and guess what you get?
A 10 thousand dollar or more bill for the extra anaesthetic.
How insane is America.
That’s what they were proposing.
Very quickly after the CEO was murdered, they walked that back.
Now we’re seeing security being beefed up.
Executives are scared.
Rich people are trembling.
They’re not dumb.
They read history.
Or at least the smart ones do.
What happened during the French Revolution?
How did Napolean come to power?
It was the average citizen growing tired of the current system.
Rising up to power.
Revolting against the current system.
This happens because the middle class is eroded.
The effects of inflation.
Let me make this as simple as I can.
For argument’s sake, you have 3 socio-economic classes.
The poor.
The rich.
And the middle class.
A healthy society is one in which the middle class is large.
It means the average person and family can afford to live.
Not only to live but to buy nice things, get their kids a good education, afford housing and possibly take a vacation.
That’s what America had post world war 2 until Reagan came into power in the 80s.
A thriving middle class.
Then what did Reagan do?
Trickle down economics baby.
Convince the universities and elites in the country that cutting taxes and letting rich people have more money was going to benefit everyone.
Because the rich will have more to invest and so will invest in everybody.
Not sure that worked out.
Look at the enormous wealth we have in our world today.
Where is it controlled?
By those who own assets.
Billionaires making billions every day while the average person is starving.
There’s always money for war but never money for infrastructure, healthcare or schooling.
When the Fed and central banks around the world print money, where does it go?
To financial markets.
Not to the average citizen.
What this has done is massively divided the socio-economic classes.
It’s made the rich way richer.
Kept the poor the same.
And this is the kicker - it’s eroded the middle class.
If your wages don’t go up and you don’t own assets, you can’t keep up with inflation.
Once you can’t keep up with inflation, everything gets more expensive.
All of a sudden, your middle-class life becomes much less middle-class.
All your expenses now go to food and housing instead of other items.
This further divides the population.
Just wait till you have an economic crisis.
Then the people who will lose their jobs need someone to blame.
When you can’t afford food, housing or energy, you have no other choice.
You want people’s heads.
And as French history has shown us, people will get them.
Doesn’t mean it’ll be clean.
It means the world gets very violent and dirty.
We’re not that far away from that, as much as the media wants you to believe otherwise.
Look at the reactions to when this story broke.
People online cheered for this guy.
He’s become a folk hero.
Meanwhile the rich and those in the media are frightened.
They need to make an example of him.
Why have the media and people in power spent more time, money and manpower on this compared to the Trump assassin?
Or the school shooters who have terrorized kids for decades?
It’s to show the rest of the poors that they shouldn’t stand up to do the same.
But now that one person has done it and succeeded, don’t be surprised when you get more coming.
People are coming for CEOs.
This is the history of the world.
The rich aggregate too much power and wealth, they don’t share it with everyone, they get leaders who only cater to their needs and the rest of the population suffers.
There’s only so much suffering they can take before they start to act out.
The murder of the United Health CEO feels like the beginning.
There will be more.