Yes, I'm saying that if an economy cannot handle an event such as this then that is evidence that the economy needs to be changed/improved in such a way to dampen the effects of said events.
Please illuminate us on how you can stop an economy dead in its tracks without incurring significant damage. Please give me a historical example of one economy that could have been put on hold to the degree ours and many other economies have without incurring serious damage.
None of this shit has anything to do with what I'm talking about, I'm saying that the economy needs to improve in a way that makes disasters like this not require a total shutdown like we're seeing now.
It's not the economy or some characteristic thereof that caused the shutdown, it's the pandemic. I've been arguing ever since my entry into this thread that there was no need to shut it down to this degree. You and others that have been going at it with me have argued the opposite.
I get that you are enamored with working at home, and a lot of us (myself included) already do, if not all the time, most of it. My wife worked for IBM when I met her 16 years ago and did plenty of work at him. But not everybody can do that. Not every job can be performed at home. Many of the jobs that can't be done at home are on the lower rungs of the latter affecting the most economically vulnerable.
As far as learning things from this, many have advocated that we need to stop outsourcing so much production overseas and especially critical production. Many have long abandoned the dogma of "free trade" that so many other mindlessly cling to, having seen it hollow out the industrial base in this country's heartland. Many have thought we need to decouple from China as their government is entirely untrustworthy, having proven time and time again that economic liberalization doesn't always coincide with political liberalization. And many have argued that we need to tighten up our immigration system and stop giving away so many H1-B visas and such while American workers are having trouble finding jobs. Those are the lessons we should learn from this, once that have been underscored greatly - but lessons that others have been arguing for us to learn for a long time. Where were you on those?
Just because you're not rich doesn't mean that you're not advocating for that. I'm willing to take the very large hit that my stocks and retirement and such are taking to not have a bunch of unnecessary deaths.
And this is where your blind spot is revealed again. It's not about what
YOU can afford. If you can take a hit to your stocks and retirement, good for you.
For many people though, continuing a shutdown to this degree is going to make the difference between being able to pay their rent, and not pay it. It will be the difference between paying their mortgage and foreclosure. For most of the 10 million people laid off in the last two weeks, it's not about their retirement, stock portfolio, or 401k, as many of them don't have any of those or have them in small portions. Many of those people simply cannot afford to take the hit that you are willing to take.
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