> people are being asked to choose between their life and their livelihood This is practically the swan song of human history. Society was built on a lose-lose

> people are being asked to choose between their life and their livelihood This is practically the swan song of human history. Society was built on a lose-lose situation for most peasants to either participate and be exploited to death or don't and either starve or just get outright killed. From the subsistence farmers having 95% of their crop taken by their lords so their families can subsist on a potato each day, to the factory line workers whose fingers would fall off from chemical exposure, to the miners who choked on their own bile, to the soldiers who died for the conquests of robber barons beset by greater greeds. Almost all peoples in all times were given this same "choice".