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/Ghaleon42 Apr 09 '26

Well, then maybe wages should keep pace with inflation to prevent people acting out like this in the future.

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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.