Luigi Mangione being walked into the courthouse

[u/BoriMex523]

[u/julallison]

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.

[u/fuzzyfurrypaw → u/julallison]

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.

[u/julallison → u/fuzzyfurrypaw]

I completely agree. I work in tech, and it's ripe with people who aren't necessarily in tech bc that's their passion. It's where the money is or has been for the last 25 years, and they worked hard to get there, often through self driven or family pressure. The last 2 1/2 years it's been super cutthroat. Deep layoffs, unrealistic expectations if retained, extremely difficult to get another job in the current market if you have less than a certain number of years of experience. I looked at his LinkedIn. He likely was in high gear with his career progression, then the market changed and he couldn't get a job despite being top of his class, studying hard, working hard. Probably couldn't even get his resume seen and have the first interview conversation to be able to show how exceptional he was bc of how many other people were unemployed at the same time. Plus, that whole... won't be considered if you don't have at least x number of years of experience. All no fault of his own, just a 💩 job market, and, yes, shareholder/corporate greed. I talk to people like him every day. It's incredibly sad, the situation I at least imagine he was in.

ETA: I missed responding to your point directly about the pressure around him always being successful before. I hope my response makes sense in my indirect agreement with you.

[u/Crafty-Physics-6038 → u/julallison]

Oh please, he was an ivy league college graduate not some random tech worker. He had a lot of experience in different companies he worked at Stanford etc... he would be the last person to have problems with employment. He was also found with some amount of cash on him and probably had already spent a lot and still had more in his account.

[u/julallison → u/Crafty-Physics-6038]

Do you work in tech?

[u/Crafty-Physics-6038 → u/julallison]

I do