SlightlyCyberpunk on Nostr: could be both, really. I posted above about all the people who get paid from this as ...

could be both, really.

I posted above about all the people who get paid from this as "capitalist logic"...but the REAL capitalist logic is that the CEOs get paid again and again regardless. If the person hospitalized has private insurance? Great, every time the insurance company pays a claim the CEOs skim a bit for themselves from the premiums paid by the workers. If they don't have private insurance? Great, it's paid for by taxes -- and we all know how much and how often CEO types actually contribute to those, but that tax money gets paid to their company and into their bank account.

And it's not just about the direct costs. This will make more people afraid of public transit -- so they'll spend more on personal transit. Or on self-defense of one form or another. They get the control through fear and violence...but the reaction to those is so often to BUY BUY BUY which gives them more control economically as well.

Building community is probably the only reaction to this that doesn't benefit those responsible for it. But probably not one that's gonna happen all that much...