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I guess that depends if you meant murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo or in a sewer. The latter happens all the time and is ignored. But a poor person being murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo in the same fashion is certainly newsworthy.
Who is getting cut up into a million pieces and dumped into the sewers? How common is such an occurrence?
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No value judgment is offered about whether a luxury condo is a good, bad, or neutral thing.
The fact that it's there to begin with implies it was noteworthy enough to include it, and the choice of including something versus not including is a value judgement. If instead the title read, "New York tech entrepreneur found decapitated wearing expensive suit", it would be more likely to strike people as odd, but isn't it essentially the same thing?
The focus on the cost of the victim’s dwelling is so weird. I hope when they find my body they don’t waste half the article projecting local housing policy onto me, as if it were my fault.
I think that directly participating in a system that prices people out of homes by purchasing a multi-million dollar unnecssarily luxurious home is absolutely blame-worthy.
Unfortunately the article mentioning the cost of the apartment elicit these types of "good riddance" and "down with the 'rich'" responses.
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you'd be surprised. it seems he was getting death threats because of his business. disrupting established syndicates doing business transferring large amounts of cash everyday is risky. in France for example, taxi drivers burned Ubers in protest.
Did they burn them with the drivers inside? If not, how is that comparable to killing and dismembering a human being?
It's comparable because it happened in France? :)
Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?
Whatever bubble you live in, don't forget we're animals.
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you'd be surprised. it seems he was getting death threats because of his business. disrupting established syndicates doing business transferring large amounts of cash everyday is risky. in France for example, taxi drivers burned Ubers in protest.
Did they burn them with the drivers inside? If not, how is that comparable to killing and dismembering a human being?
What a tragedy. If this has ties to any foreign business or government entity, I truly hope that the U.S government and military forces take swift and lethal action. Sometimes I feel like this is the sort of thing where the justice system and public media just don't work... send some SEALS to knock out whoever did this. It reminds me of the type of thing that happens with central american drug lords. I wish the artic…
2. Jamal Khashoggi was similarly butchered and there's little doubt about the perpetrator's identity, yet we still trade with them and accept their VC money for our tech startups. I wouldn't hold my breath for a serious response unless the perpetrator turns out to be a government we already don't like.
This may be socio-politically related. Extremists from Bangladesh (his original country) are known to use hacking and dismemberment as a terror tactic.
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I'm not even from the US but I still know that a ~two million dollar home in Manhattan is far from "unnecessarily luxurious". That's just a basic if large apartment.
The article headline literally says "luxury condo".
I don't think there is any new condo in NYC that doesn't advertise itself as luxury. So if you want modern features such as insulation, central cooling, heating that doesn't require open windows in the winter then your options are all luxury units.
So police don't even know the cause of death, or anything else, but they do know they have video of the "killer"? I wish I were clairvoyant like this, but otherwise, may I never come under investigation from those people.
if you read the article it says he was in the elevator with his killer, who had gloves, a mask, a suitcase. this was clearly a professional hit job...