So, by now I think most folks have heard about the CEO of United Health Care being killed in the middle of the day in NYC. And given that UHC is notorious for denying insurance claims – 32%, highest in the industry – and made 22 billion with a B in PROFITS last year – there wasn’t exactly an outpouring of sadness.

And I’ll be honest, when I heard the news, I had very mixed emotions and one thought was, “Kinda surprised this didn’t happen sooner.”

And then in the most spectacular example of tone deafness I’ve seen in a while, the interim CEO says, “We have to guard against unnecessary care.” Dude, THAT is your takeaway? But I suppose it tracks with the rest of the industry deciding that between doing some real introspection or just taking down leadership pages on websites, they decided hiding was the right answer.

The BBC was pretty spot on with this headline: Killing of insurance CEO reveals simmering anger at US health system. Though the push notification I got from them was “rage” vs “anger” – and frankly, rage is more accurate.

I don’t think this is a one-off. I think we may be seeing the start of a reckoning here in the United States.

Everyone has a breaking point – and I think a lot more folks are a lot closer to it since the election, and the realization is setting in that as far as these CEO’s and billionaires that bought the election are concerned, we’re nothing. Just figures in their little Sims game, to continue to be sacrificed at the altar of profits & shareholder value. And maybe the problem isn’t the day laborers outside the Home Depot, but instead the CEO’s and billionaires who are making it impossible for people to survive.

It’s not like we have the courts anymore, not that they were much good before – it’s not like anyone really has the resources go up against these assholes when they hurt people.

So yeah, I think we’re going to start seeing more extrajudicial actions from people who have hit the point where they have nothing to lose. And I don’t think the 1% have any idea how many of them are out there.