Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.
Looks like the execution is already starting to have an effect.
If they did anything that would negatively effect profit they’d be removed by the Board and be subsequently unhirable. They’d have to martyr themselves for the proliteriat. They can’t wisely invest into such sacrifice unless they’ve confidence in the prolitariat’s ideological commitment.
If they did anything that would negatively effect profit they’d be removed by the Board and be subsequently unhirable. They’d have to martyr themselves for the proliteriat. They can’t wisely invest into such sacrifice unless they’ve confidence in the prolitariat’s ideological commitment.
It’s ours to lead, theirs to follow.
And this is why publically traded companies should not exist
Abolishing them is akin to abolishing capitalism itself. I’m all good with that.
We should also be aware that removing nearly all precedent for corporate personhood would heavily limit the negative consequences of their existence.