UnitedHealth CEO shot

We glorify wealth too much in this country. Wealth accumulation has become a goal in and of itself and society worships those who obtain it. It allows those pursuing it to overlook the people they hurt or even just ignore that they could help on the way and still see themselves as good people. “Sure, I could have paid for that persons life saving treatment, but not doing so allowed me to leverage the money to net me even greater wealth which could theoretically be used for even greater good (which I will of course put off doing”).

I generally consider myself a free market guy, but only when the overall social norm is to value people over wealth, and I think our society has lost that value.