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>> I find it very distressing that this massive transfer of wealth from small businesses to megacorps isn't being discussed more. It's not discussed because pe
by icelancer 6y ago
>> I find it very distressing that this massive transfer of wealth from small businesses to megacorps isn't being discussed more.
It's not discussed because people don't care. They are optimizing for one thing and one thing only currently: COVID case counts. Anything to get the number under what they think is a good number, all externalities be damned.
In six months when they can't get their fair trade coffee from their local place, they'll wonder why it is and be sad. But they're as complicit as anyone else in having a zero-tolerance risk threshold with no accounting for externalities.
- voxl 6y agoYour take is dripping with bias. Everyone who had any sense wanted a lockdown with business stimulus, there is no reason these externalities needed to be bad in any capacity. Sacrificing lives because the Republican party is okay with it isn't on the common person.
- thu2111 6y agoThat's revisionism. A whole lot of people did NOT want a lockdown, or accepted it only because it was billed as only for two weeks. Once it became clear that the goalposts were rapidly moving and "two weeks", "flatten the curve" etc had been a lie, a huge number of people became disgusted with it. And please, if you'll accuse others of dripping with bias, attempting to paint this as a strictly left/right issue doesn't work. It's normally the left who claim to care about workers and small businesses, isn't it? Those are the people suffering the most.
- darkarmani 6y ago> "flatten the curve" etc had been a lie, What? I guess you didn't see the body count in NYC and NJ?
- imtringued 6y agoThe number of COVID cases is still growing incredibly fast and we are not far away from a million deaths.