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In reply to the discussion: Health Insurance Workers Fearful Amid Public Anger After Slaying of C.E.O. (HAHA! GOOD!!) [View all]Wolver
(6 posts)Your point is valid. The majority of people working for these companies are rank and file workers. Working class if you will. Struggling to survive like most. Can't fault people for that. However - and anyone could see this coming from a mile away - the bosses, the owners, the decision makers are not having a "come to Jesus moment" as a lot of people think. They have the power and the ruling class infrastructure to exert their force at will. They will instead double and triple down on fucking people over as they've always done, and make it even harder for people being fucked over to fight back. They will instruct their worker slaves, up and down the ladder, on a new set of "proper company procedures", to stop any and all fightback from the people getting fucked over in it's tracks. The message is clear...we will fuck you over, there's nothing you can do about it, and if you challenge us in any way you will be reported to the authorities as we've just seen in an article from another thread. The majority of the worker slaves at these companies will take their marching orders and march in lockstep. To paraphrase Upton Sinclair -- "it is difficult to get people to understand something when their job depends on them not understanding it." Doesn't make it right though.
This is why you have to fight the entire system. Individual acts of fightback - if that's what the CEO episode turns out to be - amounts to nothing but tokenism that can make things worse when trying to organize a mass resistance against the system. To add a bit of tinfoil to the mix... Luigi Mangione might have been just what the doctor ordered for the owners to double and triple down on their authoritarian barbarism and crackdown on the masses getting fucked over.