This is classic. I don't mean "classical," as in has been done before and we know all about it. I mean a classic example of corporatism.
The data offers real-time evidence of a divide laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic — one in which wealthier people not only have more job security and benefits but also may be better able to avoid becoming sick. The outbreak is so new that the relationship between socioeconomic status and infection rates cannot be determined, but other data, including recent statistics released by public health officials in New York City, suggests that the coronavirus is hitting low-income neighborhoods the hardest.
Concerns about getting infected have incited protests and strikes by workers in grocery stores, delivery services and other industries who say their employers are not providing them with enough protection or compensation to counter the increased health risks, even as their jobs have been deemed essential.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ket-newtab
Not only, since the reign of St. Ronnie, have the rich gotten richer and the poor, poorer, but the rich have actually worked it so now it's just about exactly like slavery. The poor work themselves to death while the rich own the houses they poor live in, own the stores that sell them food, force the poor into sub standard schools via "charter schools" which appropriate public school buildings paid for by the people then exclude all but the rich, own the doctors who provide health care to them--I could rant on and on. Won't.
People younger than 50 cannot remember times of union jobs, an actual middle class, and when most politicians who understood public service.
Either we jail these criminals in politics or there will be blood. Those are the two stark choices we face. To me, the only choice is to dis elect then prosecute the criminal political class. Perhaps then The People can make laws for the benefit of all rather than for those with more money than god.
CDFingers