Economy

I'm one of those SMW doomsayers who's been saying doom is just around the corner . . . for years.

As totally uninformed as I am, I think COVID was both a blessing and a curse in disguise. It forced the 💩 government to give a break to a lot of working class people, especially through the student loan repayment moratorium. If Biden's government doesn't find a way to make that break permanent, there will be a lot more people hurting financially, and that hurt is going to trickle up. The uber rich are of course protected from most financial crashes, but they may not be protected from social crashes, otherwise known as torches and pitchforks and cardboard signs on Wall Street demanding "Jump, you fuckers!"

I think -- though of course I could be wrong -- COVID changed the way some people think about "the economy." We may not have seen the end of the major shifts in significant sectors of the "new" economy -- working outside "the office," shopping online even for groceries, etc. Will Amazon be broken up via anti-trust laws? Will X/Twitter go down the shitter? Will a 💩 incarceration bring on the conflagration? Far too few people seem to be looking at the integration of all these facets, and I think that may be dangerous.

But what do I know? I'm just here stirrin' the pot.