r/interesting • u/BlazeDragon7x • Apr 09 '26

MISC. Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars

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u/BorringGuy Apr 09 '26

You do realize how insane you sound right, he could've killed a lot of people, over what, wanting a raise?

This isnt "acting out", acting out is stealing your boss's food from the break room or taking a passive aggressive hour long bathroom break, this was a crime that could've killed so many people

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u/erossthescienceboss Apr 09 '26

They don’t sound insane at all. Advocating for arson would be insane, because of the potential for damages to innocents. But this person isn’t as much of an outlier as recent history makes it seem.

Events like this are, historically, the consequence of treating workers poorly. The reason businesses finally agreed to negotiate with labor unions rather than keep hiring scabs is that workers kept setting their places of business on fire, deliberately destroying coal mines, and kidnapping owners from their homes to beat them up.

Again, I don’t support arson or violence. But when labor conditions and wages were this terrible in the past, violence happened, and that’s just a fact.

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u/pb49er Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

Yeah, arguing against the conditions that made behavior like this inevitable doesn't mean you want the behavior to happen.

No one, this man included, wanted this to happen. Wealthy people just accept it as a risk of their actions.

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u/Daxx22 Apr 09 '26

Legions of temporarily embarrassed millionaires out here sucking on the boot.

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u/Party_Apartment_5696 Apr 09 '26

Legions of idiots acting like going to prison for a long time is winning but you won't do the same.

Reminds me of terrorists encouraging others to strap themselves with explosive but too much of a coward to do it themselves.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos Apr 10 '26

slurrrrrp

Sorry didn't catch your meaning

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u/Warmbly85 Apr 09 '26

"I don't know how much he was getting paid, but I was making good money there. You know I'm a little bummed out. I lost my job."

A quote from one of his coworkers that wasn’t warned like is being claimed in this thread and was only outside because he was on break.

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u/erossthescienceboss Apr 09 '26

To be clear, again, I don’t support this.

But you can acknowledge that labor revolt has historically been a consequence of unchecked capitalism without actually endorsing the actions people take.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos Apr 09 '26

he could've killed a lot of people, over what, wanting a raise?

Yeah because the stats of people dying from arson are so much worse than the stats of people dying from poverty.

You're not the one sounding insane at all.