CrimethInc. Ex-Workers on Nostr: We can imagine FBI agents investigating the killing of the UnitedHealthcare chief ...
We can imagine FBI agents investigating the killing of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson struggling to make a *short list* of people who have been wronged by the insurance company.
How did insurance companies become so hated?
Modern-day insurance has its origins in grassroots mutual aid programs such as the "Friendly Societies" in which workers motivated by care for one another would pool their resources and take care of each other. Insurance only became a racket after this model was captured by the state and for-profit corporations.
Though the proponents of capitalism and the state claim that centralization and privatization are essential for scaling up social infrastructure and making it run "more efficiently," state bureaucracy and for-profit models have chiefly served to concentrate control over everyone's lives in the hands of a few oligarchs.
And the more unevenly power is distributed in a society, the more volatile that society is bound to be.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-quarterly-of-healthcare-ethics/article/anarchy-and-its-overlooked-role-in-health-and-healthcare/B04AE2EBAC242460376400D0FBD347DD
How did insurance companies become so hated?
Modern-day insurance has its origins in grassroots mutual aid programs such as the "Friendly Societies" in which workers motivated by care for one another would pool their resources and take care of each other. Insurance only became a racket after this model was captured by the state and for-profit corporations.
Though the proponents of capitalism and the state claim that centralization and privatization are essential for scaling up social infrastructure and making it run "more efficiently," state bureaucracy and for-profit models have chiefly served to concentrate control over everyone's lives in the hands of a few oligarchs.
And the more unevenly power is distributed in a society, the more volatile that society is bound to be.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-quarterly-of-healthcare-ethics/article/anarchy-and-its-overlooked-role-in-health-and-healthcare/B04AE2EBAC242460376400D0FBD347DD