The last person surely hasn't been a targeted attack as there is quite some medical trail beforehand and poisoning would have been likely found. As for the first person, there might have been no killer, but perhaps psychological pressure.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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When I heard the second guy died from a combo of influenza b and MRSA, I did immediately think about the logistics of that being a murder.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's definitely not the easiest way, or even a guaranteed way to kill someone.
Didn't the first guy literally say he wasn't going to commit suicide?
That doesn't really mean anything. You can never see inside someone's mind. It isn't abnormal to hear this or have people say the person was "so happy" that day or in days prior.
Yeah, but when a whistleblower says they aren't going to commit suicide, that should throw a huge fucking red flag when they die from alleged suicide
Pretty bad when your business interests align with assassinations, whether they did or not...!
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What would you say in the future if there was a third guy and then a fourth guy ? I was suspicious when I heard of the first guy and I am more suspicious now there is a second guy. So, I don't know but if I had to put a number I would say 20% probability they did it. Boeing-boiiingg would have a mafia division.
They didn't kill anybody. The risk/reward calculation is out of the park.
Really? Let me introduce you to the Firestone Tire Controversy, where executives knew their tires were responsible in the auto accident deaths; they calculated the cost of doing a recall was more expensive than paying out compensation to families and decided to not do a recall, resulting in even more deaths - until they were finally found out.
Companies will abso-fucking-lutely murder and let/or let people die preventable deaths for profits. Sometimes, executives even go to prison for it (3 confirmed deaths in that case).
I don't know about the Boeing cases, but I do know you're naïve if you think executives won't murder people for profits.
That's nothing compared to some of the examples you could've given, ranging from various corporations contracting with Pinkertons to attack trade unions, to Coca-Cola assassinating union leaders, to Chiquita and Dole's various atrocities in central America (which is where the term "banana republic" came from) that included fielding private armies and engaging in multiple coups d'etat.
A lot of those examples are murdering foreign nationals, which is far less likely to get them in trouble with US law enforcement. But you're absolutely right: trying to make an exhaustive list of proven cases of corporations killing or knowingly allowing preventable deaths in favor of profit would require more of a book than a Lemmy comment.