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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course not.

1.  Killing this CEO is going to do nothing to change the industry. All the gunman did was ruin his own life (enjoy life in prison bud) and leave some kids without a dad.

2.  [b]People are dumb, and think anyone with more money is “the rich”.[/b] If you support killing “a CEO”, where do you draw the line?  Minimum salary?  Home value greater than X?  If you feel that the local ice cream shop is charging too much and the CEO lives in a gated community, is that enough to warrant his death?[/quote]

Luigi Mangione wasn’t dumb and knew the world of wealthy people very intimately. I imagine he spent his entire life in close proximity to CEO types and their kids. He knows how these people talk about the unwashed masses and he knows how precisely undeserving they are of the stratospheric levels of wealth they’ve acquired.[/quote]

He also dropped off the grid recently. Very likely the shooting was caused by his mental illness rather than any disgust he felt over how the wealthy spoke 
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Both of those things can be true. I think a lot of kids raised in extreme privilege—at least those with a bit of a heart—have a time of reckoning in the 20s when they start to fully realize that their lifestyle has been made possible at the expense of the poor and working class.[/quote]

Then it is very bad he took the route he did.

With his background and education he could have fought for REAL change, not just decided that popping the CEO was the way to make things happen.

At the end of the day, nothing changes and he becomes a footnote in the year 2024.

An uneducated person would think that shooting would change something, but he should have known better since you say he was part of the elite.

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He took a terrible route for himself.

[b]But I’m not sure how he could have fought for REAL change[/b]. What exactly do you mean by that? Are there people currently using their background and education to do that?

I don’t know that we can say yet that nothing changes. He’s shone a light on an issue that a lot of people clearly have strong feelings about. You need mass popular support to make real change. [/quote]

You know, I have a normal job after going to public school and then a state school. [b]I don't really know how the halls of power work.[/b]

But with his background of education (probably wealthy) and with his having a relative who is an elected official, I'm thinking he could figure out a way to help using his brains and not a gun.
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I think his actions might be telling us loud and clear how the halls of power work. (They don’t.)[/quote]

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