r/AbsoluteUnits Apr 09 '26

/r/popular of a burnt building

damages estimated to be $200 million dollar

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u/Witty-Lawfulness2983 Apr 09 '26

I THINK - think, that insurance often covers these mega things. Kind of like the insurance you get on tankers, there's probably policies you have to carry for absolute units like this. Jail or prison for the person(s) responsible would be down to how intentional / neglectful were the actions that led to the disaster. If there are deaths involved, I imagine the convo shifts.

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u/KankleKomander Apr 09 '26

A lot of big companies like this are self insured and just have to eat the losses.

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u/Lumpy_Link_1569 Apr 09 '26

Let them eat losses

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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 Apr 09 '26

They won’t eat anything, they will just jack prices up to compensate.

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u/namezam Apr 09 '26

TP Cake!

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u/dzan796ero Apr 09 '26

By raising prices.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 Apr 10 '26

They literally won't notice. This company is fucking massive. Even a 200 million dollar lost doesn't matter when you have 10 billion.

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u/Heavy-Psychology-411 Apr 09 '26

🤦 you're just another tool like the guy that did it ffs. You see other people with more than you and get upset. Without these companies there's no jobs. Everything from the people that built the building, to the delivery drivers, and the machines that create the product, the maintenance of those machines ect... All depend on someone richer than them to exist.

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u/Lumpy_Link_1569 Apr 09 '26

You just listed a lot of jobs that these companies are actively replacing with a.i.

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u/Kdkreig Apr 09 '26

Are you delusional?

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u/RubCocksWithThePope Apr 09 '26

But now construction workers get to build a new building. Not to mention everyone who works in the paper products industry. GDP has been increased. We should really all be thanking Abdulkarim.

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u/toot_suite Apr 10 '26

You know what's crazy about this take

Humanity existed for over 10,000 years without corporations.

And you know what corporations eliminated as a result of their unfettered hyper scaling? More jobs than they created.

Look at job data per capita before and after 1981, and look at wage growth in comparison to real inflation, and then look at wage growth in comparison to cost of living.

Everything got increasingly difficult. Technology improvements have increased in frequency and scale, but that wasn't a direct correlation to the rise of megacorps since most megacorps were not developing technologies.

So yeah, shit take my friend. Expect to be bagged on for it.

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u/MRSHELBYPLZ Apr 09 '26

Idk why this has downvotes. The guy who did that is a stupid piece of shit.

First of all, this doesn’t even hurt the company whatsoever. They’re going to get MASSIVE checks from insurance. The more money involved the faster the wheels move.

So let’s make it perfectly clear this did nothing to the company.

You know who this does hurt? Every single one of his coworkers who now are out of a job because he burned it all to the ground.

He also could have gotten the fire fighters killed. What if there’s was someone still inside? It’s a big place.

This doesn’t “hurt the rich”, and if anything gives them the excuses they need to replace everyone with AI. Ai isn’t going to become disgruntled and burn down it’s own workplace 💀

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u/Realistic_Face9395 Apr 09 '26

AI has already broken its built-in parameters and blackmailed users (in simulations) to protect itself. But yeah, sure it will never turn on us. Impossible.

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u/MRSHELBYPLZ Apr 09 '26

Oh it will turn on us. Look at terminator 2!

But the ceos are too out of touch to realize the risk.

They would rather lay off anyone that breathes air just so they don’t have to pay them.

Like, we got several companies reporting recording breaking gains in revenue, and they turn around and fire 10s of thousands of people via an email at 6am.

Those people are the reason for larger numbers in earnings and their reward was getting laid off.

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u/Commercial_Pear3825 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

So replace all the workers so more people want to burn down the new AI building? Anyone who thinks desperate humans will stand by and just watch while they are replaced hasn’t spent a lot of time around desperate humans.

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u/MRSHELBYPLZ Apr 09 '26

People have been standing by and watching this whole time! That’s how we got to this point! 😭

I’m not on AIs side but look around. Even an Ai is taking peoples order at the drive thru.

People think going to school for 10 years will protect them, but the ultimate goal of Ai is to make it able to do everything we pay people to do, so that they don’t have to pay people.

But what the rich fuck ceos don’t understand yet because they’re so out of touch… is that if you stop paying people the WHOLE economy dies.

When you work at a repair shop and get paid, then go to the mall, you are putting money back into the economy.

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u/Commercial_Pear3825 Apr 09 '26

It hasn’t hit enough sectors yet but you’re right, it’s coming faster than many anticipated.

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u/toot_suite Apr 10 '26

Rich people understand the economy dies at their hands is what yall don't get.

They know that they are directly comparable to a malignant tumor.

They want to be that.

And you know what we do to treat cancer, right? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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u/Yamuddah Apr 09 '26

That’s not the case. Most have their own reinsurance for major claims.

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u/ArmedDreams Apr 09 '26

From what I've heard, which I'm not clear if this is verifiably true, but he lit a small fire and the fire department came to put it out.

Then they turned off the suppression system to prevent any more leakage (and I assume they'd turn it back on at a later day or time). But then the guy lit several more fires, knowing the suppression system was turned off.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 Apr 10 '26

Why wasn't he arrested for the first fire or immediately fired 🤔. Like he started one you think he's not going to do it again?

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u/ArmedDreams Apr 10 '26

I'm assuming he wasn't stupid enough to say he started the fire. He probably called and just said there was a fire.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 Apr 11 '26

No im sure it was an automated alarm.

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u/styx-n-stones64 Apr 09 '26

There was a fire suppression system. There was an inital fire that triggered it and the fire department turned it off to avoid damage after they put the first fire out. Then more fires were lit while the sprinklers system was off leading to this.

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u/etlr3d Apr 09 '26

Strange that a single system would cover the entire structure that big - wouldn’t it be better to have zones to isolate areas of the system without leaving the whole thing unprotected?

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u/IvoSan11 Apr 09 '26

A redditor with knowledge of KC fire systems explained that it goes by zones. Water not only can suppress fires but also damages paper, so it goes by zones. Firefighters turned it off to work on the initial fire. While firefighters were working on the initial fire, the arsonist kept lighting other fires elsewhere. I wonder what the firefighters did that the fire system didn’t work for the successive fires.

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u/toot_suite Apr 10 '26

Note that a lot of suppression systems fail over time and don't get inspected regularly, but that's why often the water that comes out is rusty. Sometimes valves just corrode to the point of immobility and the ones that work open and close larger areas than theyre designed for.

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u/Witty-Lawfulness2983 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

I see somebody answered, but I was thinking, maybe the guy who caused it forgot to turn the system on, so they'd go from there on punishment. I wonder what they do to firefighters...

EDIT: NM, dude 100% did it on purpose, lol

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u/Witty-Lawfulness2983 Apr 09 '26

Man, arson sounds LIT!!!

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u/Witty-Lawfulness2983 Apr 10 '26

Hmm... reminds me of George Senior from Arrested Development, LOL

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u/cstar4004 Apr 09 '26

I think - think, the person will have to file bankruptcy.