Monopoly money.

[Igel]

17. But it's only a message

if the history of the game is known. At least *that* particular variety of message.

If all you know is the current version of the game, then it's still a message but probably a different one. And the symbol ultimately has at least two meaningful prongs--what did the messenger intend and what did the target audience perceive? (And, in this case, the prongs really spread out because we're all part of individual sub-audiences. I'm not 100% I even know who the target audience is. UHC? Health insurance companies? Insurance companies? Large companies? Wealthy people? Uncaring people? Revolutionaries, to motivate them to rise up? Commoners, to encourage more muted resistance? Does he have a kind of vigilante complex, Zorro or such, avenging a specific person, family, group of people, all of society? Or was it a drinking bet?)

I'll be interested in seeing what the motivation was. Then again, it might be politically or socially inconvenient and if there is a manifesto lurking it might just be considered "privileged" during the course of an investigation where the records are sealed to prevent embarrassment to somebody or other.

Which I go with any given minute depends on my fluctuating level of cynicism.