I was minding my own business in r/politics and I came upon this.
Emphasis theirs.
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Those of us in aerospace know how nonsensical and misinformed that conspiracy is, seeing as his defamation testimony posed exactly 0% threat to Boeing at any level. Because, after all - and contrary to what reading only headlines would have you believe - Mr. Barnett killed himself during his appeal for his rejected defamation lawsuit against Boeing.
Which is notably NOT his whistleblowing testimony which had concluded in 2019. The case had already been litigated, FAA implemented new regulations and the South Carolina 787 factory had to comply with those mandates - FIVE YEARS AGO. Barnett had not worked for seven years and did not even suggest he had “new information” to present.
The only threat Barnett posed to Boeing is in the imagination of Redditors who haven’t bothered to look into it past clickbait headlines.
It's just much funnier if he was shot twice in the back of the head by a 727 so i'm sticking with that.
And not to be all conspiratorial, but being caught up in a lawsuit with a giant mic contractor is probably stressful as hell. Suicide mostly doesn't just happen, he certainly wouldn't be the first person put under so much strain that he succumbed to suicide by a lawsuit against a megacorp.
if there's a term similar to "social murder" but specifically for driving enemies of capital to suicide, I'm not aware of it
~~I'm confused. Doesn't the term "social murder" include capitalism?~~
Edit. I should be asleep and part of my brain is sleeping. You were very specific and you said "driving enemies of capital to suicide". I'll still leave this here...