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There have been a number of warehouse fires, but not all of them are purposeful acts of arson by disgruntled proles.
One of them definitely is, that's the one at a paper warehouse, where the arsonist filmed himself saying "You should've paid your employees enough to live" while filming the blaze.
A couple others seem like they might be copycats but currently remain unconfirmed, and the rest were clearly accidents.
So, there isn't exactly a huge wave of Stochastic, proletarian arsons going on across America. But there clearly is a hunger for a kind of revenge against the wealthy, and this overhyped news cycle is a part of that.
Actual instances of Stochastic terrorism, like the killing of healthcare CEO Brian Thomson, or the recent attacks on the home of Sam Altman, in addition to the one confirmed warehouse arson, are also a part of that hunger for revenge.
That said, instead of doing an individual act of terrorism... Go organize your workplace, join an org, help out your neighbors, and do something more productive. Its not as sexy, but it is more useful.
There is nothing stochastic about either the CEO, Sam Altman or the warehouse cases. Pretty deterministic those.
Also wouldn't call it "terrorism". It is revolutionary action.
It's a perfectly normal Free Market Correction. When your policies are so reprehensible, that they spawn a customer so angry that they kill the CEO, that's the Free Market at work. Perfectly normal, and the way the Free Market is supposed to work.
That Free Market extends to the government, too. Eventually the citizens will get pushed around a little too much, and they will issue a Free Market Correction, which will be very unpleasant for those being corrected.
And the free market need a LOT of correction.
Yep. They put all their hopes into the Free Market, and have collected heavily on its benefits. Now they will have to experience the Free Market as it corrects, and finds its balance.
Sorry, MAGA, that's YOUR system. Remember that as you hear the blade shwish.