The “Luigi Effect”
When A Problem Has To Be Corrected
The “Luigi Effect”
When A Problem Has To Be Corrected
I recently had a conversation with someone that stuck with me, not because it was polite or agreeable, but because it was honest, which is rare these days.
We were talking about the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the one whose job it was to convert human suffering into stockholder profit. You know, the one handled by Luigi Mangione.
In the middle of the conversation, this person says:
“Look, I don’t agree with killing. I really don’t. But I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t smile a little reading a future history book that talked about
It’s one of those sentences that just stays with you.
It cuts through all the soft-focus moral fog we like to hide behind. It forces us to ask a question we’ve been avoiding for decades in this country: What happens when the system refuses to hold the killers accountable?
No, I’m not talking about the guy with a gun who took care of a problem. I’m talking about the guy in the boardroom who decided that a quarterly earnings bump was worth denying coverage for a life-saving treatment.
We always like to think justice is a court and a gavel, but what if sometimes… it’s a pissed off guy named Luigi?