Current Events > The uber elite benefit from Covid restrictions.

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I got modded from entertaining the idea that we should consider this fact when making decisions about Covid 19.

Like wtf mods. Is the narrative "eat the rich, but trust them they know what's best?"

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explain how they benefit

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"Amazon is doing even better because of Corona"

so people think what TC thinks

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ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

"Amazon is doing even better because of Corona"

so people think what TC thinks

The bigger lesson here: If you still don't have a decent delivery infrastructure for your business, you may not have a business much longer.

walmart can stay open with thousands of people crammed into a store yet the small business owner that maybe has 3-5 people in their store spread out at one time were "forced" shut down....I wonder which one has a higher risk of getting people sick? I use quotation marks on the word forced because I thought this was the land of the free, not china or north korea. Apparently it won't be for long if we continue to bend over and take it.

Also, I found the "curfew" shit even more ridiculous. Yeah, let's close the grocery stores late at night and early morning that way people trying to be safer by shopping in the slow times won't be able to. If you wanted to save lives wouldn't you encourage people to shop when almost no one is in the store?

Yeah, they took advantage of this situation to be as tyrannical as they could to maximize profits. That's a fact. It was never about saving lives, big biz and the PTB don't give a shit about any of us...you either be diligent and be smart to save yourself or fall off the cliff trying to be an obedient sheep. Period.

Demon1050 posted...

walmart can stay open with thousands of people crammed into a store yet the small business owner that maybe has 3-5 people in their store spread out at one time were "forced" shut down....I wonder which one has a higher risk of getting people sick? I use quotation marks on the word forced because I thought this was the land of the free, not china or north korea. Apparently it won't be for long if we continue to bend over and take it.

Also, I found the "curfew" shit even more ridiculous. Yeah, let's close the grocery stores late at night and early morning that way people trying to be safer by shopping in the slow times won't be able to. If you wanted to save lives wouldn't you encourage people to shop when almost no one is in the store?

Yeah, they took advantage of this situation to be as tyrannical as they could to maximize profits. That's a fact. It was never about saving lives, big biz and the PTB don't give a shit about any of us...you either be diligent and be smart to save yourself or fall off the cliff trying to be an obedient sheep. Period.

this is all really, really stupid

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Yes, but they also benefit from pretty much anything else that happens under capitalism

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"The money power is ****ing us but I believe CNN."

Imagine holding these two ideas simultaneously.

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This fact is meaningless and implying it means anything beyond the fact that the elite always prosper is idiotic and should be moddable.

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F1areaGaman posted...

I got modded from entertaining the idea that we should consider this fact when making decisions about Covid 19.

Like wtf mods. Is the narrative "eat the rich, but trust them they know what's best?"

I'm not entirely sure that covid measures are specifically designed to benefit them, but if you mean "take into account" in the sense of "find measures that work best for the average person, rather than ones that work best for the rich people, while still keeping in mind that we are dealing with a goddamn pandemic here" then... I can't say I can see much fault in that.

Although in practice, the same things generally work best for both anyway, until you get to the point where it isn't just "one rule for all". Which sadly, it often isn't.

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is this the full story?

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Yea, big businesses were relatively untouched for the most part. While smaller ones were forced to shut down. Wealthy individuals and poltiicans also were able to ignore restrictions, even ones they themselves imposed.

But let's gang and punish the little guys buying up hand sanitizer to sell for profit. While ignoring the and big permas that do the exact same.

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CanuckCowboy posted...

This fact is meaningless and implying it means anything beyond the fact that the elite always prosper is idiotic and should be moddable.

For real? We cant even discuss the possibility of the ruling class using and/or extending it to their own advantage? Really? Are you out of your mind? We just cant entertain that idea on gamefaqs. Is this really how you think?

By that vein, should we not be allowed to take into consideration the 1% when we go to war? When we policy is written? "Its idiotic because they always benefit anyway" Like what?? What does that even mean?

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