People Are Starting to Eat the Rich

Rana Foroohar: “Lately, I’ve begun clipping pieces about violence against the rich. I vowed that when I got to the point where there were more than three good high-profile examples, I’d write about the topic. That time is now. There were secret hearings last Wednesday about Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson. In early April, someone threw a Molotov cocktail into the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.”

“Around the same time, an arsonist comparing himself to Mangione set fire to a Kimberly-Clark warehouse outside Los Angeles. This follows all sorts of free-floating rage that has been going on for months and years, like attacks on Tesla property and vehicles, increased targeting of homes and property in wealthy neighbourhoods like Beverly Hills, Manhattan tyre slashing on rich blocks and May Day protests at the NYSE.”