Luigi Mangione should be tortured to death

Grant no quarter to Slave Morality

Before I start this piece in earnest I’d like to emphasize that I’m just about the furthest thing possible from an apologist for Corporate America.

Note that isn’t a statement of ideology so much as a job description; right now I spend nearly all my time coordinating labor interests through The Tortuga Society, and at this point I feel a lot more like a union boss than a public intellectual.

It’s also just a candid admission of financial incentive. These days the vast majority of my income comes directly from Tortuga membership fees and various upsells, which means my mortgage gets paid if and only if I remain effective at selling guidance on strategically exploiting various inefficiencies in the corporate power structure.

Sometimes that means teaching guys how to work multiple remote jobs sub rosa. Other times it means leveraging internal LLCs to fabricate work experience for recent grads / blue collar guys so they can lie on their CV while rapidly upskilling through our lightweight technical bootcamp. More recently it’s meant organizing concerted litigation efforts against woke corpos that still discriminate against white boys.

But above and beyond anything else it means forging a tribe of capable and agentic men eager to network and collaborate—an impulse that’s already paying huge dividends for the group. For instance, our tradcath marketing whiz Marcellino D'Ambrosio recently hired a fellow Tortugan to manage a client at his personal consultancy, while just this week one of our younger guys let us know our tech lead BlackBeardII had successfully shilled him into a plum role at his own employer.

This sort of scalable mission-driven praxis might not be as glamorous to women as shooting middle-aged fathers in the back of the head, but when it comes to securing hard material concessions from corporate fatcats it’s orders of magnitude more effective.

One reason for this is that assassinations basically never work, and in most cases only provoke a thermostatic backlash in normie NPCs. This phenomenon is actually a huge reason why robber barons were able to crush labor interests so consistently during the Gilded Age; incel anarchists kept trying to murder corporate fatcats, and at one point even managed to take out the President, but this accomplished precisely nothing for them long term other than antagonizing the public and seriously embarrassing their allies in the labor movement.

So if you despise Corporate America—and you absolutely should—then you should also abhor guys like Luigi Mangina, because in practice such men create tons of political capital for extractive corporatists basically out of whole cloth.

And they’re not even getting paid for it.

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But you hardly need to be a labor organizer like Wally B to make a real difference in the War On Mammon; even I was in the trenches for years before I realized it’s a lot more profitable to sell shovels than dig for gold. And it’s actually my experiences during those years that afford me a fairly unique perspective on this situation.

See, I’ve worked in insurance basically all my adult life. I’m formally credentialed as an actuary and at this point have enough bugman clout to secure an $150k remote role basically on demand, so whenever I choose to do so I can typically maintain a position without needing to work more than 8-10 hours / week.

This is possible because the insurance industry is a sclerotic zombie that adopts new technology at a glacial pace and mostly attracts people temperamentally disposed to risk aversion and pedantry. They also take care of their own, and it’s terribly hard to get fired as an actuary so long as you do the bare minimum and don’t say “nigger.”

So while Brian Thompson may have been a big ole meanie in terms of claims denial rates or whatever tf people are moaning about, he also oversaw a corporate structure that’s uniquely easy to arbitrage. It’s a structure that employs millions of Americans in stable, easy, reliable roles that typically give you plenty of space to pursue your own ventures, whether that means entrepreneurialism or family or art.

But for me it was all about doubling down on this golden opportunity and using my spare time to collect even more sinecures from similarly sclerotic insurers so I could start to make a Big Boy Salary without having to work hard or lick anyone’s asshole.

That’s why I’m genuinely incapable of seeing our dearly departed fat cat as a predator. How could I, when the organization he ran is the consummate prey animal?

The margins created by BriThom’s extractive and niggardly business practices are one of the factors enabling the insurance industry’s waste and thereby creating the perfect host for my parasitism. And with that in mind, am I about to look a gift horse in the mouth? I suppose fags who actually go to the doctor will feel differently, but I’m a 31yo bachelor of Scotch-Irish extraction who intuitively feels like when you get sick you should either tough it out or die, so it’s hard for me to get all moralistic about it.

Also just considering Brian Thompson’s life I’m not especially jealous of him—at this rate by the time I’m his age I’ll probably be just as rich as him, and I’ll have gotten there in a substantially cooler and far more enjoyable way.

So when I look at the dude I don’t see an enviable tyrant.

I see a big fat sucker.

a feller whose eyes have clearly seen too many deliverables

Brian Thompson was a working class kid who spent the best years of his life climbing the ladder at PwC. Do any of you broke retards understand what that entails?

Having done a stint at Deloitte I’ll fill you in on the deets. It means working 80-hour weeks most of the year and 120-hour weeks during busy season. It means lighting your health and hobbies and social life on fire to put the finishing touches on an important slide deck. It means always being on call—even on vacation—because sometimes you’re literally the only one who can deal with a high maintenance client.

I couldn’t handle it, and if I’m being honest I’m genuinely astonished that anyone can. The juice just doesn’t seem worth the squeeze—sure I got paid like 30% more as a consultant than I ever did as an insurance actuary, but I also did probably five times the work and was easily fifty times as stressed. Meanwhile by simply getting three data analyst roles I was able to clear twice as much for less than half the work.

Climbing the ladder is a sucker’s game when job stacking is an option.

But I suppose that life wasn’t available in Thompson’s day. And given that reality, can we really blame the dude for exercising his Will To Power in this brutally Faustian manner to secure a modest little fiefdom for himself? Whatever you think of Brian, he incontrovertibly paid his dues. The man was incredibly willing to suffer to succeed, and like all such people probably didn’t think much of doling out suffering to others.

In comparison wahhLuigi is a straightforwardly contemptible and pathetic figure: a trust fund brat whose enormous privilege afforded him the luxury of building a life centered entirely around aesthetics. Like a woman.

The dude put zero effort into his manifesto because he correctly assumed his physique and facial aesthetics were sufficient to secure him the admirers he craved among low agency proles longing for aristocratic violence against nouveau riche strivers. There will always exist some contingent of thirsty whores and ankle-biting incels who long to worship men like Luigi, and he cynically transformed their desperation into clout.

What he didn’t do is literally anything of substance, because Brian Thompson was not some dark puppetmaster—in the grand scheme of things he was a middle manager.

Also most of the people who rail against insurance companies are worthless morons. Insurers aren’t the real problem—hospitals and doctors are, and especially odious rent-seeking institutions like the AMGay which artificially restrict the supply of labor to keep medical salaries and professional prestige artificially high. If you really want to cut healthcare costs you need to disembowel the medical credentialing regime and take the fight to those insufferable faggots in scrubs.

But normies will never permit that, and instead think doctors deserve some exalted status—probably because they love watching stupid TV shows like House and E.R.

And I suppose that isn’t their fault; the nature of medicine makes it really easy to create compelling dramas around the profession. Nobody would ever watch a show about actuaries, so it’s not surprising the insurance industry is artificially low status.

That said in my experience actuaries are a million times more ethical than doctors and lawyers (though far more boring and gay), which on one hand is why I couldn’t stand them and ultimately had to leave the profession, but also why they deserve at least an equal level of status and their industry absolutely shouldn’t be scapegoated for a system whose faults are straightforwardly driven by acquisitive and grasping physicians.

Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system

Anyway the American healthcare system will likely remain first class if you have good insurance or enough money to pay out of pocket and shitty if you don’t. WahhLuigi’s actions won’t meaningfully change the discourse, because Corporate America doesn’t care one whit about people who impotently opt out of The Game or defect against civilization itself by shooting someone in the back like a vibrant urban youth.

They care about people who actually lose them money.

They care about people who scam them. Exploit them. Arbitrage their inefficiencies.

That is what provokes real action. I’ve seen it on both ends—first as a manager at Deloitte trying to corral my employees who were very obviously job stacking, and these days as a union thug scheming to help my guys outwit fat mulatto HR ladies in a grand arms race defined by thoroughgoing information asymmetries.

Admittedly this approach is too much for most people—the ambiguity breaks them. You see the same thing in chess; most people feel the need to resolve a stressful conflict right away and can’t handle building up sustained pressure on the board. And so they’ll push to trade queens at the very first opportunity and can be baited into creating a severe positional vulnerability for themselves long term—something they can’t even fathom because their time horizon only extends a few moves on!

I’ve noticed that poor people, black people, wignat chuds, etc. tend to find this sort of indiscriminately conflict-prone behavior masculine; they’re the ones who will think Luigi noble for shooting some fat burgher in the back of the head. Meanwhile middle class whites are huge faggots who go hard in the opposite direction and just obfuscate or delay all conflicts. They often think it’s mean or dishonorable to act against your boss, and are afraid such a thing will get them sent to the principal’s office.

Compare this to Jews and actually wealthy White people, who love conflict but actually have something to lose, and because of this won’t randomly throw away their life for street cred or insta likes from fat chicks with bad tattoos. They also understand things like timing and proper escalation, so when they fight they’ll usually do so in a way that actually crushes their foe and has little to no cost for them. Otherwise they’ll negotiate or dissemble or delay until the time is ripe.

Lots of modern-day Nazis find this sort of behavior dishonorable; no doubt the same fellas would have bitched at Manstein for not charging straight at the Maginot Line.

Anyway my point is this:

If you think it’s noble to pointlessly murder nouveau riche nothings feel free to call me a grifter / faggot / mischling and continue mainlining Luigi’s cum.

If you’re interested in striking back against your corporate overlords in a lasting and meaningful way I’d encourage you to reach out and consider joining my crew.