@Lt.Slothrop it's just money.

I've seen this monster and looked it in the eye all the way back to the mid 1990s when I was a CEO and had an employee who the insurance firm tried to fuck.

Then it happened again, with a different person a couple of years later.

Once is a mistake.

Twice ain't.

Both times I won. I had to get releases from them because otherwise I couldn't even discuss anything beyond the size of the premium check I wrote to the insurance company for the health coverage, but armed with those releases I was a five-alarm bastard and VERY not-nice about it.

They cut that shit out, but only because I got personally involved.

It was just money then -- they didn't give a fuck if one of my employees was seriously harmed or even dead. All the cared about was the money.

That's all it was this time too, except now the monster is roughly twice the size as a percentage of GDP and thus requires twice the food -- money, that is. Or IT dies.

Well, not without a bullet to the head it won't, and if you try to cut off the food without killing it first it will eat YOU to stay alive.

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