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The American economy is surprisingly stable and unstable. The average steam user has $1000 retail of games on their account they’ve never played (likely inflated due to generous sales). Outside of one-time extreme circumstances, essentials and luxuries like toilet paper, carbohydrates, booze, and chocolate remain available and attainable, unthinkable even in the late Soviet Union.
However, the American economy is not good enough to provide largess for personal emergencies. Our insistence on providing essentially free healthcare to those who cannot or refuse to pay offsets costs on those that can and don’t realize credit is cheaper than you think. A totaled car can force a surprise expense in the worst used car market since the introduction of the Model T. Americans have enough to live, but are for the first time finding that crises are impossible.
Replacing your Lada in the late Soviet Union was impossible, but nobody really had a Lada anyway, and if you reliably had one you’d easily get another. Replacing the shitbox creates pressure. At least in the Soviet Union, healthcare was in theory free, albeit at the expense of having an economy that couldn’t produce toilet paper. In the US, we have similar dilemmas, toilet paper and wakandan kweens at the expense of an economy that can’t win a war (the Russian Federation somehow managed to eke out a victory in Chechnya in the 90s, the nadir of Russian civilization, we’ve no excuses).
Why’d somebody cap a CEO presumably over insurance claims? The weird economic circumstances I described. We’ve engineered an environment where 60% of young dudes are single (read as have nothing besides material possessions to lose), a plurality of which can’t compete against diversity hires (IE they have few if any material possessions), and are forced to endure a personal depression in miniature anytime they’re forced to interact with any major essential market, EG health insurance. While the individual assassin may not have fallen into any of these categories, they certainly create an environment fertile for creating assassins of insurance CEOs.
Many have decided to take the health insurance industry sympathetic take. You can’t pose as a dissident in the same sphere, in theory, as the Turner Diaries, while creating overwrought essays about how “assassinations are le bad.” Admit to being a poser, or shut up and let the adults hash things out. The God’s honest truth of the matter is that societies get the outcomes of their situations, and we’ve engineered one that is perfect for lone wolf political terrorism.
In a previous, slightly better epoch (obamna), the assassin likely would’ve been intercepted by the FBI and groomed into a school shooter. The feds are stretched trying to contain “incels,” “white supremacy,” anti-war activists, and whatever other danger to soyciety has cropped up this season. Naturally people are going to fall through. Moralizing about someone who makes money speculating on how best to fuck with people with illnesses and injuries is unproductive and unpopular. If you want to make hay from an anti-assassin position, simply point to NYC’s gun laws.
Some guy literally did a Sam Hyde bit IRL. A quick survey of what content the average dude gets served up on Instagram reels only points to the trend continuing, especially if he gets away with it.
Another unknown and therefore undiscussed aspect of the cost of insurance is the absolutely insane waste logged in the daily in and out regularities of their business practices. Among reinsurance providers, which is to say insurance companies that insure other insurance companies or large companies for catastrophe and a number of other possible losses, they fly people across the planet for a single lunch meeting, spend tens of thousands of dollars per day on client servicing (entertainment, meals, booze, etc.) all to make CEO’s “feel important” and win accounts. Inside that world the level of unearned privilege would make you ill. I’ve seen them order a several thousand dollar bottle of Clase Azul tequila for a table, do a single round of shots, and abandon it, for example. And that was just a fleeting moment in their circus of an evening trying to win the account of some small insurance firm in Des Moines. It’s disgusting, and all of it is a write off because that’s how the tax code works. So rather than dial back on the fellating of decision makers and actually try to cut costs and run a tight ship, or redistribute these funds to workers or shareholders they blow it all, and pass the costs on to us. Because that’s how business is done at the top levels in America. These people are ridiculously rich and don’t even have to spend their own money.
I’m not going to be that guy, but a 10,000 dollar lunch to potentially nab a 7 figure or higher contract is actually insane ROI. Graft is usually diversity hires, underworking employees, and miscommunication.