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Execs’ Names Wiped From Other Insurer Sites After CEO’s Murder (www.thedailybeast.com)
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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 119 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Open letter to executive committees:

That feeling you're feeling right now? The one where you're scared, at every moment of every day, at least a little, sometimes a lot, but never not scared?

Yeah, the people you're scared of feel that from about age five until they die, for all manner of reasons. They know how to go on with that fear inside them. You don't. When - not if, when - shit goes sideways and you've got the resources that people need, they're going to come take that shit from you, and there's not a goddamned thing you'll be able to do about it.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's the same feeling parents of children with cancer feel when you deny their child treatment. The combination of fear and rage. You've had years of getting comfortable with handing out the fear, now you're starting to learn what it means to have the rage come looking for you.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The whole point of insurance is that a bunch of people pay a bit of money so that none of those people have to choose between tragedy and financial ruin. Ideally, it is a 100% socialist contract.

When the insurance company denies a claim, or otherwise stands in the way of someone receiving timely treatment, that contract is broken. It's only a matter of time before someone who has been wronged comes to extract their pound of flesh, and I'm franlky surprised it hasn't happened much sooner.

That's why this incident has generated so much indifference towards someone stalking and shooting someone else on the street in broad daylight. Because all of us have experienced that contract being broken. All of us are owed a pound of flesh, and we're vicariously receiving it.

Running insurance companies (again, insurance is ideally socialist) as capitalist endeavors (profit above everything, funneled to owners) is inherently abusive, and we all instinctively know this.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Agreed.

Shareholders should never be part of the healthcare business.

It shouldn't be a business at all.

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 80 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why do companies always forget that web archive exists?

[–] riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 62 points 3 months ago

The thing companies are trying to take down?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 24 points 3 months ago

They don't forget it exists, they just haven't quite managed to destroy it yet.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Here ya go. Just a little starter

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What about a deck of cards for healthcare CEOs like we did in the Iraq with the most wanted high ranking officials?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards

I like this one because anyone arguing this is wrong has to admit the US imperial war machine is far worse.

"As of 2024, all but four of the 52 most wanted have either died or been captured, eleven of whom have been released."

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To me, that's a sign that they know they're guilty.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not convinced that people, yes even the bad ones, wake up, get out of bed, and think to themselves "let's do evil today". Rather, I think people tell themselves lies about how their actions are morally justified for some greater good, or at least remain willfully ignorant (i.e. psychopaths), or just complicit in a rotten system (passive bystanders).

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Sometimes I jump on reddit and it wants me to checkout r/austrian_economics and its basically people doing just that.

[–] StrawberryPigtails 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And yet most of them are public companies. Who file annual reports. Which names the top executives. /facepalm

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 24 points 3 months ago

And there's Wikipedia, archive.org and the Wall Street Journal. It's not exactly going to stop anyone.

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 48 points 3 months ago

So they’re admitting that their companies are just as bad? Interesting.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

Good. Be afraid mfers. Live in constant fear.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No way to find out who the CEO of a company is if they do not put it in the "about us" section of their website.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah if it's a publicly traded company doesn't this information need to be public?

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

That's kind of the definition of publicly traded. You don't get all the employees, but you get to know who is making you money.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's OK. Politicalmemes made a list with pictures, names and salaries.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Link?

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I'm not a legal / financial expert by any means. But I think info about the executives, board, etc., has to be published in things like the securities prospectus for the companies, etc.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

You wouldn't be scared if you were innocent. Just sayin'.

[–] some_guy 2 points 3 months ago

Archive.org will bring them back if you just gotta know. Yay!

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Do they think we are stupid?

Oh wait... never mind.