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I believe the the title of this post is a threat of violence and OP should be banned forever. That is if we are playing by reddit rules.
Good thing this isn't reddit. Also, OP is right. They aren't actively calling for harm against them, only stating that they deserve death, which I agree with. Anyone who makes a conscious decision to cause the suffering and death of another person, most particularly doing so purely in the pursuit of profit, deserves whatever is coming to them. I'm not going to show up and murder these people but I also won't be too disappointed to hear that someone else did.
In the words of Mark Twain, "I have never wished a man death, but I have read some obituaries with great satisfaction."
That said.... point taken. I'd prefer if we didn't call it out so coarsely. This one is toeing the line of "Won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?" and we shouldn't invite calls to violence.
90% of the people working in health insurance are entry level customer support workers who A, probably don't have many options on where to work because that job is fucking awful and no one stays in it that doesn't need to, and 2, have absolutely no authority whatsoever to approve or deny anything, don't give one rat fuck about their employer's money and would blanket approve every claim if they could, and are just trying to get through another fucking miserable day.
Op says they deserve death.
"Clearly OP doesn't mean THEM" you might say. "He only means the executives with the authority!" I've been the miserable fucking front line guy before, and for the crime of trying to help strangers on the Internet fight their insurance company I have received more death threats than I can count on my hands. I've been told to kill myself. That I deserve horrible mutilation. That simply having a job at a third party that handles health insurance calls I wasv just as guilty for every dealth at the hands of the instance company as the CEO himself, as were the thousands of others just trying to scrape by taking a shitty job at a call center because it was the only one that paid enough they could pay most of their bills on time.
Then these are explicitly not the people I am talking about. The ones implementing the policies that cause prices of medication to skyrocket and then denying that same life saving medication to the people who require it, are the people I'm talking about. This situation isn't nobody's fault. It was caused by people and those people deserve whatever karma has in store for them.
The easy answer for the wage slaves is to say "just work somewhere else" but I've been desperate enough before that I know that's not always an option. I have no beef with those guys. Clocking a 9-5 and going home isn't the great evil that's being called out here.
I'm sorry you had to live through that and, honestly, while I don't consider my perspective to be changed I do respect what you're saying here. People who threaten violence on call center workers are idiots. But you have to admit that their fear and anger has a legitimate source.
Think of it this way. If every person who worked for an insurance company was actively targeted then no one would want to work for an insurance company. Therefore completely dismantling the insurance system.
This is an example of people not blaming the right people at the right level. It's a very good example of rich people setting working class people against each other as if they're not in fact basically goats making the mill go round. It's a job. A livelihood for them. It's not like 80 or so percent of them are management people who actively have any control whatsoever. I agree with your sentiment. This is absurdist and it's just another example of that meme where the rich guy with all the cookies tells the middle class guy that the foreigner is stealing his cookie.
Being genuine, titles and posts like don’t make Lemmy endearing as a platform. It’s an unethical and downright cruel thing that shouldn’t exist as a business, but wishing the employees death as if they’re Nazis or Martin Shkreli is over the line.
Well that's just offensive to Nazis.
It’s funny because it’s true.