I was talking with family yesterday. Keep in mind, I'm not a burger. Someone says that Luigi was crazy because he came from a very rich family and shot the CEO anyway, to which I said that he was wealthy but his back surgery would definitely cost hundreds of thousands of $ and even a relatively wealthy person can't afford that. Then the same person that had just called him crazy said that I was underestimating the cost, it's probably in the millions.

If we all understand this, if we can all agree that healthcare is inaccessible even to a rich techbro, why are we calling him crazy?! I didn't really explicitly say I approved of his action, but later on we kept talking about how health insurance often doesn't cover necessary stuff, and I bring it up again, joked about how Luigi doesn't look that crazy to me after all. But it just got a laugh, not really a conversation.

Admittedly I come from a privileged family so these are the last people who are gonna agree with CEO assassinations, but aren't the contradictions glaring? Is the media so powerful at getting people to believe oxymorons like "that guy was so rich that necessity couldn't be the reason for the killing" and "even the rich can't afford healthcare"? Is it the lack of critical thinking?