"A year after "15 days to flatten the curve" began our lockdowns, we have enough data to answer the classic question about lockdowns: Who benefits?
The answer is:
- an individual, Jeff Bezos. His stock in Amazon, the single biggest beneficiary of lockdowns, is worth billions of dollars more than before the lockdown.
- a group: educated professionals, able to work from home via Zoom and other internet-based services and able to afford home delivery.
The Ace of Spades pungently summarizes:
The general lockdowns weren't general lockdowns.
As a friend said, we didn't have a lockdown, we had poor people delivering s--- to rich people.
Instead of protecting the people really at risk, the Ruling Class — the "Zoom class," the people who can work completely remotely — protected itself, and killed half a million people...
Instead of protecting the people really at risk, the Ruling Class — the "Zoom class," the people who can work completely remotely — protected itself, and killed half a million people...
...America's progressives, when forced to choose between strengthening arbitrary state power and protecting the lower-income working classes, seems to (always) choose government power...Read all.
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