WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @lemmy.world

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You're right. The governor of NY should give him a pardon, and the mayor of NYC should throw him a parade!

Saint Luigi of Baltimore, forgive us our debts, deliver us from the greed of the wicked...

I just end all my public speeches with "and Carthage must be destroyed."

Inheritance is weird. My partner and I stand to inherit a good bit when the parents on either side pass. Both sides of the family had successful middle class careers saved and invested well. Even considering the siblings on both sides, we could inherit an amount around $1M from either side.

But it's weird in two ways. First, it's not something that can be counted on. On either side it could be completely eaten up by nursing home care and medical costs for our parents. So we're not planning our own retirement assuming a windfall from inheritance. Second, on either side, unless they're unlucky, at least one of the parents is likely to live into their late 80s or 90s. So we'll already be in our 60s or 70s.

In other words, while we stand to likely inherit a good chunk of change, it will come so late in life that we won't really need it. Unless our parents die younger than expected, we will already be well into a fully funded retirement by the time they pass.

I feel inheritance made a lot more sense in the past. A farmer or a craftsman would will their farm or business to their children. And that child would take over that business while the parent was still alive, but too old to work it anymore. The child got the business or farm, but in turn had to support the parent in their later years.

But now? You're basically just inheriting your parent's house and whatever is left over of their retirement accounts. And you're doing so at an age where it really doesn't necessarily help you. Sure, if you yourself are unable to retire, then that windfall will be a godsend. But considering how wealth reproduces through generations, if you're in a position to inherit substantial funds from your parents, odds are you probably have a pretty big nest egg yourself built up by then. The people who could really use an inheritance to fund their retirement are unlikely to have parents wealthy enough to give them one.

But yeah, this is why I support strong inheritance taxes. For most people who inherit anything substantial, by the time you actually inherit something, you don't really need it anymore.

This is straight up cartoon villain shit.

One possibility is that Luigi is just a vaguely similar looking guy who happened to be in the area at the time of the shooting. They found some DNA from a coffee cup or similar that he dumped in a trash can near the scene. So they actually do have real DNA evidence of him being in the proximity. Once they were confident they had air-tight proof that he was in the viscinity, the cops just went ahead and manufactured the rest of the evidence. So Luigi really was by chance near the scene of the crime, but it's Manhattan, plenty of people were near the scene of the crime.

But why would him be getting caught be necessary here? The motive was pretty obvious simply due to his role as CEO, and the shell casings removed any doubt. It's not like his "manifesto" revealed much about his motives that wasn't obvious from the bullet casings. In terms of sending his message, what did he getting caught actually accomplish?

Anti-vaxers should chained to boulders and thrown into the ocean. They are enemies of all mankind.

Hopefully people with terminal illnesses.

They want to make him a martyr? Let's make him a saint. Saint Luigi of Baltimore.

Yeah there would be a lot of opportunity for interpretation. Realistically you would raise funds and accept proposals from artists. But I do love the over the top classical imagery.

I choose to use my powers for evil. I will pop into existence in 2000 BC, 50 yards from the future Apollo 11 landing site. Neil Armstrong is going to make one small step for a man. Then he is going to shit in his space diaper when he finds a 4000 year old dessicated infant corpse just sitting there, completely inexplicably, exposed on the lunar surface.

You know what? If they want to turn him into a martyr, I want to turn him into a saint. St. Luigi of Baltimore. In fact, I want to erect a big statue of him, something deliberately over the top and in bad taste. Like how Dante wrote his political enemies into Hell.

Think of the classical paintings and statues of St. Michael casting Satan into Hell.

I want to crowd fund a big bronze statue like this. Except Luigi is St. Michael and Thompson is Satan. Thompson can be holding a scroll that reads "delay deny depose."

I say we put a gaudy statue like this somewhere near United Healthcare's headquarters in Minnesota. Just this classical bronze of their former CEO as the Devil himself, being thrown into literal Hell by St. Luigi of Baltimore. Make them drive past the damn thing every day on the way to the office.

The dedication on the plinth can read "In Memory of St. Luigi of Baltimore. Tear down this monument when Americans no longer die from lack of healthcare."

The bastards want to make him a martyr? I say we make him a SAINT.

Saint Luigi of Baltimore.

Martyr? You mean

SAINT LUIGI OF BALTIMORE!

He's the only sane man in that whole courtroom.

Apartheid ghouls should be chained to a boulder and thrown in the ocean.

This seems like a slur.

You cannot convince me this man is not a serial killer.

An RTO mandate is proof of a company's path to bankruptcy. Many executives mostly view work as a social club or a hobby, rather than an actual place of business. RTO mandates are undeniable proof that corporate leadership cares about the wrong things. Some just want to spend their day shmoozing. Some are psychopaths who just get a sick pleasure out of lording themselves over underpaid workers. Some are just sex perverts and dislike WFH because it makes it hard to rape employees. But regardless, a RTO mandate is damning evidence that a company is circling the drain. It's evidence that leadership has lost the plot, and that they care more about vibes and then their own vanity than they do actually running a successful company. Short any company that uses RTO, as it's a surefire sign they're on the decline. They've officially lost the plot. An RTO mandate is as damning as a going out of business sale or having payroll checks bounce.