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Föderation EN Mo 09.12.2024 19:11:56 Been watching people's reactions to the assassination of the healthcare CEO. At the same time I've been reading Sidney Dekker's Just Culture which opens with the story of a pediatric nurse who faced criminal charges for an accident that led to a newborn's overdose. Despite systemic issues that led to the accident. I've also been thinking about cancel culture. People blame and punish individuals when systemic change feels unreachable. But too often punishing individuals protects the system. |
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Föderation EN Mo 09.12.2024 19:18:23 @shauna That's normally true, but it mainly applies to people who are forced to work within the system. When we're talking about people who control and shape the system, individual punishment becomes a lot more appropriate. |
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Föderation EN Mo 09.12.2024 19:46:58 I don't actually think the CEO who got killed could have changed the system on his own, but I agree he's more culpable than someone completely powerless. Regardless, I don't think individual punishment is going to help improve the system and I think it might even get in the way. |
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Föderation EN Mo 09.12.2024 19:25:56 @shauna I like this take at the same time, I wonder if a CEO serves the same function as a regular employee, as far as being a sacrificial lamb that keeps letting things continue as-is. |
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Föderation EN Mo 09.12.2024 19:51:17 Certainly a CEO has a lot more power and protection than a regular employee. The CEO's case is also different in that typically an individual is punished in order to maintain the status quo, whereas it seems that the assassination happened in protest of the status quo. My argument is not that all three things are exactly the same. Just that they have some similarities, in an individual being punished/sacrificed because systemic change feels unreachable. |
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Föderation EN Mo 09.12.2024 19:51:33 > People blame and punish individuals when systemic change feels unreachable. But too often punishing individuals protects the system. @shauna Interesting. Suddenly reminded of the Jack in the Box rebranding. And nobody even died then I don't think violence tends to work very well as a solution and it can escalate, but I do agree with everyone who's calling out the hypocrisy of an absolute manhunt against killing a CEO while cops literally being pardoned for executing innocent people regularly |
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Föderation EN Mo 09.12.2024 19:56:36 @shauna If you're not familiar with it, Jack in the Box had a huge scandal from E. Coli killing and sickening a bunch of people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%E2%80%931993_Jack_in_the_Box_E._coli_outbreak Then there was a big "rebrand" where the mascot came in and "retook" the company, appearing to wipe out corruption. Literally nobody was fired (and definitely not killed) but it was a PR move that successfully changed the public image and the brand rebounded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-rgqDhnLoU |
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Föderation EN Mo 09.12.2024 20:00:35 @cwebber oh my god that's one of the most depressing things I've ever heard |
