Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive who served as CEO of the firm’s real estate income trust, was among four people killed Monday when a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone’s global headquarters.
Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive who served as CEO of the firm’s real estate income trust, was among four people killed Monday when a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone’s global headquarters.
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What would Spok say?
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
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61,000 homes x bare minimum 2.6 avg household size = 158,600.
Homelessness rate in the US is now at least 3% of the total population.
158,600 x 0.03 = 4,758.
Homelessness is an extremely dangerous, life-threatening, often fatal condition.
In summary, nah, she absolutely deserved to die for the work she did, regardless of whatever the actual specifics of this incident are.
1 life vs almost 5k likely deaths?
This math ain’t as hard as people seem to think.
If she ran a company that knowingly, intentionally, poisoned that many people’s food or water, distributed that many HIV contaminated needles, sold that many defective airbags or brakepads…
…if the process wasn’t so abstracted with so many steps, the moral judgement would be a lot easier for a lot more people to make.
Keep in mind: Her job was to literally operate and maintain the abstraction.
I have negative pity for this exploitative cancer formely emobodied in the form of a living human being.