a coincidence?

Not a coincidence, it’s by design

Yet this is supposed to be the strongest economy ever. We can’t have a strong economy and also a wealth disparity that makes the gilded age look not so bad. We are in a full swing oligarchy and we always have been, and that oligarchy decides the economy is great even though no one can afford a home and we are all miserable working too many hours until we die. You can’t have a strong economy and also a 28% increase in homelessness and an elderly generation that can’t retire. I’m getting so sick and tired of having rainbows and sunshine blown right up my fucking ass.

Class war heating up. We all either fight back or die working for these dozen billionaires.

Free Luigi.

Tax policy cat fix this.

Can we run elections in this platform solely?

I lost 80 lbs and got evicted during the pandemic because they wouldn’t approve my unemployment so I couldn’t pay my bills or get approved for foodstamps.

Capitalism can be cruel to the ignorant masses. Don’t be an ignorant mass.

The transfer of wealth to the wealthy

How do you account for the trillions lost by billionaires beforehand due to COVID-19?

So we don’t realize that people were forced to stop working = lost wages = employers didn’t have to pay those wages = net gain…??

So the dragons robbed the peasants again?

I don’t know, what do the articles actually say?

Edit: looked the articles up. Of course it’s completely unrelated. One is that Americans were laid off and lost that much in wages during the pandemic, the other is just wealth growth across the whole world, most of which was outside of the US anyway

As a black woman and a Gen Z, the pandemic was super painful for me. I had just graduated college and moved to the U.S. I saw the very very worst of humanity.
An actual employer told me that I had to be having sex with him (like the other girl that worked for him) if I wanted to get the job because according to him, “my wife left me and went to another house. She even took the disabled baby with her.”
I was in utter disbelief that time. I managed to get a job somewhere and I would hear gunshots all the time. My coworker told me that “Oh it was just at the other building of the workplace where workers and clients fought regularly. Just be happy you didn’t get assigned to that building.” I lost my cool when I saw employees stealing clients medication and just marched up to the CEO’s office. I SCREAMED and YELLED at him so hard then I quit. I also saw a 13 year old working at that place and she lied about her age and said she was 18. In that job, you had to 18 or older because of the job duties (we were caring for people with traumatic brain injuries.) She told me that her family was homeless and she had to participate in helping them out of the water.
These experiences, I won’t forget them ever.
Our society needs a huge overhaul

That’s what a money printer does.

#fix the money, fix the world.

It must be liberals fault. I’m mad at them for me living in a trailer park. Rawr.

As designed. Shut up and get back to work. That yacht won’t build and run itself, and rich people sure as fuck aren’t going to do the work.

Yeah but they clearly worked harder for it. How else would they make that much?

heads i win, tails you lose.

Up next, NYT, CNN, Fox, and all the other major news outlets will pump out shit like “Wondering why you can’t get a raise? Americans, especially women and people under 30, chose easier lower paying jobs post pandemic changing income opportunities” or something along those lines because everything has to be about placing blame on groups so that we all fight each other rather than the people who are actually in control of all this. 

Not surprised. When you shut down small businesses and keep open large national chains this is exactly what I would expect to happen.

Now that the dust has settled, can we finally admit that we completely overreacted to Covid?