Sounds like this real estate mogul was attacking people too. If I am googling this right his company the “MAC collections group” took on written-off dead debt and aggressively collected on it by any tactic they could.
Sounds like there’s finally a manhunt underway after Toronto developer violently put half the country on the streets
Loser, he didn’t eat them.
Just kidding, go go go dear Luigis ❤️
It’s just sad these instances are rare. Why isn’t there more rage against the rich oppressors. If we’re unable to tax their wealth for anything over 1bln, we could tax their head with a guillotine.
Only a matter of time until things like that had to start happening.
Widening gap between rich and poor, no future prospects, no hope of change. On top of that we have Insta and co, showing people how nice life is if you have a bit of money, every day.
didn’t know Toronto had a CEO
It’s a locked article for me but the description on the post says “real estate mogul.”
I don’t live in Canada, but I’ve heard the cost of buying or renting had been skyrocketing for a decade. I’m sure tensions are really high when people are having trouble putting food on the table.
Fuck the rich. They have cops and they’ll use them so they don’t deserve concern.
On a technical level this is interesting. This was a robbery, not a social justice action. So money was the motive.
The three guys came up with a new business model and started their own corporation (not registered) in their garage. They then took actions to gather funds from investors. The investors turned out to be unwilling and escalated to lethal force in an to attempt to dissuade the corporate representatives. In the ensueing negotiations representatives on each side were shot or otherwise injured. The blame here clearly rests with the investors who escalted to lethal force rather than just fund the corporation.
Had this happened in the US, and caused a new business model that was very lucrative for some existing wealthy people, any crimes that occured in the process would be ignored. However, since the three individuals who formed the new corporation were not already wealthy, they would be caught and jailed.
The robbery was a way to hurt them where it hurts most. Money
Meh, it justice was their motive, they would have just killed the guy. They woke them up and demanded to know where the money was. Someone resisted and a gun fight broke out.
In a way you’re right. But we don’t know the exact situation. It’s like Marios bro sending a message. Was it a reasonable approach?
Yes, we certainly don’t really know. All we have is what is reported. But it’s still technically interesting. Or maybe clinically is the right word. Whatever takes out the emotion of people getting hurt, on either side.
Run, Luigi, run! 🏃♂️➡️🏃♂️➡️🏃♂️➡️
Attacking a CEO at home is something else than a Luigi. The attack on the family sets it apart. One thing is a product of injustice, the other is a byproduct of rage or even insanity, probably mixed with some social justice element. While I understand the rage, we can’t go there where girls are badly hurt.
You’re right, and this is out of bounds. That being said, I can’t get more upset than when corporations go out of bounds. This is low on the list of injustices that ought to be fixed.
Think what you want about CEOs but his daughters can’t help who dad is
If this had happened in my neighborhood, or most of yours, none of us would now be hearing about it.
Yet if it’s unconscionable for some, it’s unconscionable for all.
As much as I regret that anyone goes through something like this, you cannot have a discussion about crime without also having a discussion about wealth inequality and poverty.
But they’re only talking about the first part, so . . . I hate to say it, but zero fucks given. They can take care of themselves. Anyone living in Bridle Path, Toronto with Drake and Celine Dion is not going to have the same struggle as a working person who has inadequate or no health insurance but still has bills to pay and a family to feed in the aftermath of an attack like this.
I would not wish it on them, but these ultra-rich folks ARE the problem that created the circumstances – the poverty and wealth inequality – that led to their own attack. And as such, they will have police, government, and medical lined up around the block to help them through this.
They don’t need me to care too.
My compassion is best invested elsewhere. They have taken enough resources already.
Actually, home invasions of that brutality would be in the local news here, no matter who the victim is.
If this had happened in my neighborhood, or most of yours, none of us would now be hearing about it.
For anyone living in a greater metropolitan area in North America with a home value of under $10mil, home invasions do NOT get reported locally, and certainly not internationally. This made the news because of the neighborhood, which out of the hundreds of small neighborhoods in the greater Toronto area even has its own Wikipedia page.
It is moneyed. It is exclusive. It also now not as safe as it was once believed to be by its residents, high walls and everything.
And here you are, pretending like the money isn’t the news. But I saw you coming and left an exception just for you, lol. If you’d read further than the first phrase before you got offended you’d have seen it for yourself.
The money, and not the attack itself, is why this is being reported worldwide on billionaire-run media: the news is that big money failed to protect in the exact situation where it was expected to protect its owners the most.
That has all kinds of connotations for the ultra-rich, not least in regard to the politicians and lawmakers they buy.
BBC is international news. Pretty big difference from local news
Fair point. But I wanted to make clear that such crimes do get coverage, as that was questioned above. It is also right that they hardly will get international coverage.
That’s not what OP said. Sure, in your local news, but OP or I, wouldn’t know about it, unless you have many CEOs as neighbors.
Well, I hope they track down the CEO and the family and bring them to justice
I wonder why people hate CEOs so much. Oh well, what can you do?
There’s no way to avoid this.
People shouldn’t be attacked, but also ivory tower neighborhoods and the inequality they showcase shouldn’t exist.
Also… The disproportionate police response when it’s wealthy and/or connected people compared to poor everyman Joe and/or a minority is as frustrating as it is sad.
I think it’d be great if we lived in a world where violence wasn’t required, and we could, but we don’t. Ideally an actual just justice system would handle things so individuals don’t need to use violence, but it isn’t just.
Maybe if they didn’t flaunt their wealth like that, people wouldn’t rob them.
Did they tell the robbers no?
It’s giving “what was she wearing”
How do boots taste anyway?
Nah that commenter is right. The issue isn’t people with any amount more flexing their wealth, the issue is how disproportionate wealth distribution is and the things some people do to keep others down in order to keep themselves increasingly higher above the peasantry.
You morons are arguing that it’s okay to chain snatch in the hood, it’s not, it’s only excusable to steal from major corps and the obscenely wealthy.
The guy is a real estate CEO. He is obscenely wealthy.
Lmao yeah I know what the subject is about. It does not change the flaws in statements and lines of thought like the above comment. Using the logic of that comment would that snatching chains from your neighbors necks is okay because they flaunted their wealth. Just focus on the bad things the guy actually did.
