The Coronavirus pandemic exposes America the Fragile.
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“They are either going to have to pay people or shoot people. One or the other.” That’s what Corbin Trent said the other night after we had shared some stories we’d heard of desperate small businesses and laid-off workers suffering through the Coronavirus crash. It hit me that few people in the government, the media, or the corporate boardroom quite understand the full implications of shutting down America’s means of making a living. Our national consciousness has still never realized that we’ve become an economically-helpless, fully-proletarianized people. We seem to think that America will somehow get by with a can-do spirit. But we’ve only ever done that by working. And how can we get by with no work while more than two-thirds of Americans can’t even cover a $1,000 emergency expense?
The Coronavirus pandemic exposes America the Fragile.
The Coronavirus pandemic exposes America the…
The Coronavirus pandemic exposes America the Fragile.
“They are either going to have to pay people or shoot people. One or the other.” That’s what Corbin Trent said the other night after we had shared some stories we’d heard of desperate small businesses and laid-off workers suffering through the Coronavirus crash. It hit me that few people in the government, the media, or the corporate boardroom quite understand the full implications of shutting down America’s means of making a living. Our national consciousness has still never realized that we’ve become an economically-helpless, fully-proletarianized people. We seem to think that America will somehow get by with a can-do spirit. But we’ve only ever done that by working. And how can we get by with no work while more than two-thirds of Americans can’t even cover a $1,000 emergency expense?