Monday Night Owls: Inequality was bad enough before it went viral in the Pandemic Recession
newsdepo.com
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Paul Buchheit is the author of «American Wars: Illusions and Realities» (2008) and «Disposable Americans: Extreme Capitalism and the Case for a Guaranteed IncomeMonday Night Owls: Inequality was bad enough before it went viral in the Pandemic Recession
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Paul Buchheit is the author of «American Wars: Illusions and Realities» (2008) and «Disposable Americans: Extreme Capitalism and the Case for a Guaranteed Income» (2017). At Common Dreams, he writes—Inequality Gone Viral: The Obscene Numbers: In a distressing analogy to the relentless surge of Covid-19, which has disproportionately impacted low-income communities and people of color, there has been an unstoppable transfer of wealth from desperate Americans to the people who already had most of our nation's financial assets. While the great majority of us have been focusing on the health and well-being — and the very survival — of loved ones, the super-rich have become «pandemic profiteers,» isolating themselves from Covid while riding the stock market to its highest-ever level. At the same time we are seeing a dramatic demonstration of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, with the «perfect conditions for governments and the global elite to implement political agendas that would otherwise be met with great opposition if we weren’t all so disoriented.» […] Read more