An outlier?

Nadella lives in an AI generated cocoon of psuedo-information, if his words are to be believed. Zuckerberg thinks he's Caesar and has become Dominican, post metaverse, for some reason. Bezos has become a Miami club promotor with phallic rockets. Thiel rants about the coming Anti Christ in seminars and keeps trying to create 'libertarian' cities (that he would own). Altman talks about the coming age of the Dyson sphere. The immortal vampire guy goes to sleep at 4pm or something insane.

The highest echelon of wealth allows you to follow every possible impulse in a 'disciplined' way at any given moment.

"this guy blew grass clippings at my car so I " purchased every home around me for a mile and constructed a private compound free from the interference of lesser mortals, then bankrupted the guy that dented my car?

You misunderstand.

It isn't 'all the drivers' fractionally at fault (others can quibble about that), it's the people who create the moral hazard. The car industry and politicians that decided that the ungoverned car, the road, and the parking lot will be the only way to traverse Dallas or LA lo those many years ago, the ones that affirm that system with 'one more road' using tax dollars year after year, knowing that more people will die as a result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in... <- the line goes up.

They have a duty of care as representatives that they are failing to meet. Compare that to cities in Europe or the North East. When you make policies that serve the few and sacrifice the bodies of the many, that act is violence.

Likewise, with PE. When they intentionally understaff a hospital, no single doctor is responsible for killing the patient that died bleeding in the waiting room. It is the choice that we allowed that PE firm to make. Are you comfortable with a fresh MBA using excel to ensure that your local hospital should have four less doctors than strictly necessary to treat you in a timely manner? Society doesn't need to be organized this way, we can and should demand better.

Imagine the reverse, a municipality decides to privatize their water and sewage treatment, but puts no restrictions on the results as long at those wealthy enough are not inconvenienced. This is precisely how you get Flint. Or redlined cities that put the 'undesirables' in industrial waste parks. These acts are violence.

Intentionally and artificially reducing the quality or quantity of life-saving resources to the point of excess death is, in fact, violence. I think you wouldn't have trouble recognizing the starvation campaign is Gaza as intentional violence.

Thus, I have no trouble asserting that PE firms commit intentional violence against patients.

Indirection allows you diffuse the responsibility into the anodyne 'immoral decisionmaking' while social murder remains as it ever was.

You open your hood to see a 50 mph max speed engine in your vehicle... You notice that roving speed enforcement is no longer necessary except in school zones, freeing up public resources.

You contemplate this new world... Is this... violence? It must be... manufacturing regulations are violence against businesses (people)! You relax a little. You imagine someone 'woke' being angry at your incisiveness, you are calm.

"we could reduce deaths, but there's never and endpoint where it's truly done"

What a wonderful argument for never trying to improve the world you also reside in.

"your own paycheck or lifestyle."

If excess mortality is required for your lifestyle, change how you live. Do you deny insurance claims for fun? Are you the human avatar of GE and Raytheon? Do you need to manufacture child-vaporizing bombs to maintain your 'lifestyle'?

Genuinely, what is wrong with you? PE firms are not people to take vengeance on. They are not necessary, if they vanished from the Earth tomorrow, the 'worst' outcome is the wealthy owners and workers would need to find new, less violent, employment.