Fuck the rich. They have cops and they’ll use them so they don’t deserve concern.
On a technical level this is interesting. This was a robbery, not a social justice action. So money was the motive.
The three guys came up with a new business model and started their own corporation (not registered) in their garage. They then took actions to gather funds from investors. The investors turned out to be unwilling and escalated to lethal force in an to attempt to dissuade the corporate representatives. In the ensueing negotiations representatives on each side were shot or otherwise injured. The blame here clearly rests with the investors who escalted to lethal force rather than just fund the corporation.
Had this happened in the US, and caused a new business model that was very lucrative for some existing wealthy people, any crimes that occured in the process would be ignored. However, since the three individuals who formed the new corporation were not already wealthy, they would be caught and jailed.
The robbery was a way to hurt them where it hurts most. Money
When did the bbc go subscription?
Think what you want about CEOs but his daughters can’t help who dad is
Attacking a CEO at home is something else than a Luigi. The attack on the family sets it apart. One thing is a product of injustice, the other is a byproduct of rage or even insanity, probably mixed with some social justice element. While I understand the rage, we can’t go there where girls are badly hurt.
You’re right, and this is out of bounds. That being said, I can’t get more upset than when corporations go out of bounds. This is low on the list of injustices that ought to be fixed.
I wonder why people hate CEOs so much. Oh well, what can you do?
There’s no way to avoid this.
To shreds you say?
If this had happened in my neighborhood, or most of yours, none of us would now be hearing about it.
Yet if it’s unconscionable for some, it’s unconscionable for all.
As much as I regret that anyone goes through something like this, you cannot have a discussion about crime without also having a discussion about wealth inequality and poverty.
But they’re only talking about the first part, so . . . I hate to say it, but zero fucks given. They can take care of themselves. Anyone living in Bridle Path, Toronto with Drake and Celine Dion is not going to have the same struggle as a working person who has inadequate or no health insurance but still has bills to pay and a family to feed in the aftermath of an attack like this.
I would not wish it on them, but these ultra-rich folks ARE the problem that created the circumstances – the poverty and wealth inequality – that led to their own attack. And as such, they will have police, government, and medical lined up around the block to help them through this.
They don’t need me to care too.
My compassion is best invested elsewhere. They have taken enough resources already.
Actually, home invasions of that brutality would be in the local news here, no matter who the victim is.
BBC is international news. Pretty big difference from local news
Fair point. But I wanted to make clear that such crimes do get coverage, as that was questioned above. It is also right that they hardly will get international coverage.
That’s not what OP said. Sure, in your local news, but OP or I, wouldn’t know about it, unless you have many CEOs as neighbors.
I love that they mentioned this motherfucker’s a CEO. (And an uber bastardly real estate CEO at that.) How I think about this crime is 100% going to be different if it’s a super-rich wealthy bastard rather than a poor, single mother or a facsimile of that.
Reminds me of that time when an outspoken gun advocate took a bullet to the neck.
Well, I hope they track down the CEO and the family and bring them to justice
People shouldn’t be attacked, but also ivory tower neighborhoods and the inequality they showcase shouldn’t exist.
I think it’d be great if we lived in a world where violence wasn’t required, and we could, but we don’t. Ideally an actual just justice system would handle things so individuals don’t need to use violence, but it isn’t just.
Maybe if they didn’t flaunt their wealth like that, people wouldn’t rob them.
Did they tell the robbers no?
It’s giving “what was she wearing”
How do boots taste anyway?
Nah that commenter is right. The issue isn’t people with any amount more flexing their wealth, the issue is how disproportionate wealth distribution is and the things some people do to keep others down in order to keep themselves increasingly higher above the peasantry.
You morons are arguing that it’s okay to chain snatch in the hood, it’s not, it’s only excusable to steal from major corps and the obscenely wealthy.
The guy is a real estate CEO. He is obscenely wealthy.
Lmao yeah I know what the subject is about. It does not change the flaws in statements and lines of thought like the above comment. Using the logic of that comment would that snatching chains from your neighbors necks is okay because they flaunted their wealth. Just focus on the bad things the guy actually did.
Unfortunately this was a robbery. So it’s not an eat the rich situation.
The irony of this statement
“No family should ever have to experience this.”
Morton said his family was reeling from "the trauma of experiencing something so horrific in the one place where everyone should feel safest: their own home“At least this pig has a home. No one is likely to come take it from him or price him out of it.
I’d love to say I don’t condone violence to the families of these people but honestly there’s a little of me says they are happy to ride on the coattails of the profit…so by extension are complicit.
As for the CEO himself what’s the chances he uses this event to reflect, I doubt it he will just buy more security.
Robin Hood was known for robbing and he is quite liked. Rob the rich.
I wonder if he was one of the good ones?
“Real estate mogul… "
Oh, whew!
looks like he is the CEO of Mac Group, which is a huge developer across the US. They built a lot of subdivision style developments, run a lot of HOA’s, and own lots of rentals across the country.
So, yeah guillotine fodder
oh no… anyway.
Thats crazy. Ill keep them in my thoughts and prayers or some shit
Fuck 'em. They can afford their own thoughts and prayers.
They were talking about the robber
