Saint of Greed, Patron of the Evil

The CEO who was murdered wasn’t the victim of random violence. His death wasn’t some aberration; it was a grim consequence of the system he helped create and profit from. This man, celebrated on Wall Street and idolized in boardrooms, was a murder. He didn’t wield a gun, but he wielded power—the kind of power that decided who would live and who would die. Under his leadership, life-saving care was denied to those who couldn’t afford it, all in the name of maximizing shareholder profits and fattening his own bonus. He wasn’t just complicit in suffering; he orchestrated it. Every time a cancer patient was denied treatment or a diabetic couldn’t afford insulin, it was his system pulling the trigger. So no, there are no tears to shed for him. He lived by the ruthless calculus of profit over people, and in the end, he died by it too.

Healthcare should never be dictated by the profit motive. To tie human survival to the size of a bank account isn’t just cruel—it’s barbaric. Yet here, in the wealthiest country in the world, we spend more on healthcare than anyone else but get far less in return. Why? Because every dollar spent on patient care is a dollar that doesn’t go into an executive’s paycheck or a shareholder’s pocket. The system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as designed. And those who run it—the CEOs, politicians, and lobbyists—aren’t passive participants. They are the architects of this cruelty. This system isn’t just failing; it’s deeply evil, and so are those who profit from it.

Don’t expect the media to tell you this truth, either. The very outlets meant to inform the public are funded by the same pharmaceutical companies and for-profit healthcare providers driving this system. Just watch their ad breaks—insurance giants and drug companies dominate. Do you really think a network bankrolled by these corporations will expose how they inflate prices or deny care? Of course not. Instead, the healthcare crisis is framed as if it’s a natural disaster—unavoidable, rather than the deliberate result of corporate greed. This is manufactured consent in action: the media shaping public opinion to protect the status quo, making it seem like there’s no alternative to a system that prioritizes profits over people. If the media were honest, they’d expose these CEOs for the predators they are. But instead, they distract us with hollow outrage, ensuring our focus stays anywhere but where it truly belongs—on the villains running the system.