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@pluralistic Cory Doctorow’s prescient story in #Radicalized is about health insurance and murder
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…
Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’
The parallels between the science fiction writer’s five-year-old story and present-day events are startlingCecilia Nowell (The Guardian)
"the assassination of #BrianThompson is a wake-up call, a warning that if we don't solve this problem politically, we may not have a choice about whether it's solved with violence. As a character in "#Radicalized" says, "They say violence never solves anything, but to quote The Onion: that's only true so long as you ignore all of human history"
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#luigimangione
The violent response to #BrianThompson, a CEO who profits obscenely from the torment and suffering of millions of customers.
It didn't need to happen. Those CEOs have had plenty of warning that oppressed people will be pushed only so far before seeking a violent response.
The title short story from collection _Radicalized_, by @pluralistic, details how people are corralled by the physical suffering of family members, exploited by an insurance industry deliberately designed to extract wealth while denying health care, and finally resort to violent terrorism in the absence of any other effective option.
CEOs have had this, and for decades many other, warnings that they must stop the ghoulish practice of denying health care to those who need it, while extracting wealth. A reckoning is coming.
#EndWealthCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #PolicyFailure #Radicalized
