> It's a matter of what is a good-enough tradeoff of risk and reward. This also sounds very short-sighted. Yes, people die in a lithium mine, but in most count

> It's a matter of what is a good-enough tradeoff of risk and reward. This also sounds very short-sighted. Yes, people die in a lithium mine, but in most countries, I'm the one taking the risk to become a miner or not. Understandably, the situation isn't that easy: in some countries, you may indirectly or directly be forced to risk your life for the economy. Yet often, I don't see the physical risk-takers being particularly rewarded for their risk-taking either, with few exceptions. Miners are definitely not one of them. Its a difference between who is taking the risk and who's life is on the line: I don't mind risking my own life. I do mind the government toying with it while a prime minister is sipping tea in his comfy seat. Reality is, the current economy is maintained through exploitation in one way or another, and its fragile balance is now attacked by a force that doesn't care about our economy. Every time people bring up the economy as an argument, its abundantly clear the people in trouble either can't make a buffer, or don't have the discipline to make a buffer. It wasn't that long ago we were forced to go through harsh winters using the harvest of a possibly failed summer and autumn. Yet today, the economy is in jeopardy if a quarter of all activity is told to shut down temporarily. Why can't make people a buffer? Why aren't people making a buffer? Why aren't governments prepared for this? Something unexpected can always happen, we're not gods nor do we have crystal balls. In a competent software industry, you'd be summoned for making a fragile software system where traffic stops coming through. Yet now we tolerate the same in regards to our economy. It really is time we take a step back and go on the defense rather than looking no further than 3 months.