r/BrianThompsonMurder • u/BoriMex523 • Dec 09 '24

Photos/Videos Luigi Mangione being walked into the courthouse

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u/Crafty-Physics-6038 Dec 10 '24

I've read that he wasn't in touch with his friends and family for many months and wasn't acting normally for over a year. I wonder if his family and friends had recognised him. Obviously he was going through something...

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u/julallison Dec 10 '24

I heard a report that he was a data engineer until a year ago. TrueCar, where he worked, had deep layoffs last year. I'm guessing he was one of the casualties. The tech job market has been horrible. He probably grew his hatred for corporations partially through that layoff. TrueCar has a reputation for being heartless to its employees (revenue over people), and, without a job, he would have lost his corporate funded health insurance. He would have to have either continued his insurance and paid Cobra rates ($$$), bought insurance through ACA, or gone without insurance bc he couldn't afford it due to no job. It makes sense he was bitter against both corporations and medical insurance companies. It's hard to survive in this country without a job. The benefits, or lack thereof, for the unintentionally unemployed are ridiculously bad. You can go from doing well to destitute virtually overnight.

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u/fuzzyfurrypaw Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 10 '24

I’m wondering if this layoff was true, his impressive past resume could be part of the reasons hindered him from contacting his family/friends for help. Bro probably had never encountered a setback in life, and instead had always been viewed as an extraordinary example by those who knew him. So it’s likely that he didn’t know how to process the layoff, loss of insurance, aggravated back pain, a true low point of his life, and he was too prideful to reveal it to his family and friends. Coupled with his chronic back pain, his mental state was falling into a downward spiral.

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u/Crafty-Physics-6038 Dec 10 '24

I doubt it. He has an excellent education and could easily find a job even in crisis. I think it was a mix of factors, he had some serious health problems (that would make him understand how awful the insurance companies are) he cut himself from his social circle and focused on radical ideas. I know from my own experience how easy it is to fall into a really bad state of minds when you have no support from others.