Well, I hope they track down the CEO and the family and bring them to justice
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sounds like there’s finally a manhunt underway after Toronto developer violently put half the country on the streets
People shouldn’t be attacked, but also ivory tower neighborhoods and the inequality they showcase shouldn’t exist.
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.
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.
Fuck the rich. They have cops and they’ll use them so they don’t deserve concern.
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.
Unfortunately this was a robbery. So it’s not an eat the rich situation.
The irony of this statement
“No family should ever have to experience this.”
Morton said his family was reeling from "the trauma of experiencing something so horrific in the one place where everyone should feel safest: their own home“At least this pig has a home. No one is likely to come take it from him or price him out of it.
I’d love to say I don’t condone violence to the families of these people but honestly there’s a little of me says they are happy to ride on the coattails of the profit…so by extension are complicit.
As for the CEO himself what’s the chances he uses this event to reflect, I doubt it he will just buy more security.
Robin Hood was known for robbing and he is quite liked. Rob the rich.
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.
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.
I wonder why people hate CEOs so much. Oh well, what can you do?
There’s no way to avoid this.
I love that they mentioned this motherfucker’s a CEO. (And an uber bastardly real estate CEO at that.) How I think about this crime is 100% going to be different if it’s a super-rich wealthy bastard rather than a poor, single mother or a facsimile of that.
Reminds me of that time when an outspoken gun advocate took a bullet to the neck.
I wonder if he was one of the good ones?
“Real estate mogul… "
Oh, whew!
looks like he is the CEO of Mac Group, which is a huge developer across the US. They built a lot of subdivision style developments, run a lot of HOA’s, and own lots of rentals across the country.
So, yeah guillotine fodder
Thats crazy. Ill keep them in my thoughts and prayers or some shit
Fuck 'em. They can afford their own thoughts and prayers.
They were talking about the robber
I didn’t know Toronto had a CEO
I didn’t know Toronto had a CEO
His name is Doug Ford
No he’s the CEO of Ontario.
Someone should tell him that
The Ford dynasty is hilarious to me. Heroin Ford got caught smoking on camera and that ends up with a family dynasty in politics
Is that an older relative? Because the Ford brothers had a mother in politics and a father in business or something (but I may be misremembering)
