It's bad that this happened, but this kind of stochastic violence targeting the weatlhy and powerful will only grow more frequent.
The average person has next to no social mobility anymore. People are having fewer and fewer kids. They have depressed wages with no prospect of owning a home (leave-it-to-your-kids 40yr loans are popping up where I live). They have issues covering health care costs and medicine for themselves, their parents, and their children. They have no faith in their system because it continued to erode year by year, while allowing for massive wealth concentration by a select few.
Add to that the inability to organize -- the cluster of cameras and microphones we all carry, the public surveilance equipment (LP readers, gait detectors, traffic sniffers), and the loose-lipped electronic-only discourse -- any serious movement will be nipped in the bud by the ruling system to maintain status quo. Just don't riot and keep working, please, the billionares are starving.
I agree this is a symptom of large systemic issues.
Long gone are the days a bumbling fool could get a well paying job at the local power plant and provide a good life for a wife and three children, with a large home, decent insurance and two cars.
The average person has next to no social mobility anymore. People are having fewer and fewer kids. They have depressed wages with no prospect of owning a home (leave-it-to-your-kids 40yr loans are popping up where I live). They have issues covering health care costs and medicine for themselves, their parents, and their children. They have no faith in their system because it continued to erode year by year, while allowing for massive wealth concentration by a select few.
Add to that the inability to organize -- the cluster of cameras and microphones we all carry, the public surveilance equipment (LP readers, gait detectors, traffic sniffers), and the loose-lipped electronic-only discourse -- any serious movement will be nipped in the bud by the ruling system to maintain status quo. Just don't riot and keep working, please, the billionares are starving.