Corporate Arrogance and Greed Doesn’t Always Pay Off
As the story of Brian Thompson, the late CEO of United Health, ripples into and ultimately out of our news cycle, the subject of corporate greed resurfaces once again. It’s clear that this guy’s organization, known for its exuberance in denying healthcare claims, pissed off one too many of its customers with its avarice and lies.
There is so much wrong with the way that corporations interact with us, it’s hard to know where to start. Here at 2GreenEnergy, we tend to focus on environmental sustainability, where we routinely point out that Big Oil, the most profitable industry in human history, bolstered by tens of billions of dollars in annual subsidies from the U.S. government, is in the process of purposefully baking the planet, so as to profit to an even greater degree as global warming due to fossil fuel emissions roasts us alive.
Private healthcare is a different animal, but only slightly. Like Big Oil, it works by lobbying (bribing) public officials to create legislation that enable it to profit from public misery. This system results in the fact that the United States, the only developed country on the planet without universal healthcare, has the most expensive and least effective healthcare on the planet. Ask yourself how it’s possible that people in other countries have far longer life expectancies, lower incidents of infant mortality, and far better outcomes than we do across dozens of different metrics, given that our country is by far the wealthiest and most powerful on the planet.
If I were the CEO of one of these corporations whose profits derive from the suffering of its neighbors, I’d have personal protection so robust that it would make the Secret Service look like a few Boy Scouts with bean-shooters and slingshots.
When we see video clips of Greta Thunberg speaking to large audiences during international conferences, she is normally mad as hell. And given the truth shown in the meme here, is there any reason why she shouldn’t be?
I’ll grant that the Albert Einsteins of the world are actually harmed by schooling. Of course they’re bored, but perhaps worse, their capacity to employ their creative genius is thwarted by the authority of the academic status quo.
The author of the meme here suggests: “We’ll revisit this post (about the price of a dozen eggs) in four years.”
I was on a Zoom call the other day with a guy who was defending Fox News on the basis that it’s “for people who want both sides of the story.”
If you think there is a single kid in our schools who’s being taught to hate his country, you are a true moron.
Pictured here, it’s an indoor open flame, a fire outside of the fireplace if you will, the perfect present for a family with little kids. Some ads show five-year-olds preparing smores next to the Christmas tree, captioned, “bringing the whole family together, one roasted marshmallow at a time.”
I’ll bet anyone $100 against his $10 (10:1) that no investor in 
Perhaps you’ve seen earlier versions of the ultra-right-wing “Kids’ Guide,” which present Donald Trump as an honest effective servant of the American people, and expose the “radical left” nature of mainstream media. They lay out the “evil” of certain social issues as well: LBGTQ rights, women’s rights to an abortion, DEI, wokeism, Critical Race Theory, etc.
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