It's Interesting That Many "Essential Workers" Are Also "Poorly Paid Workers"

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24. I wonder where those invaluable billionaires are in all this?

We're told again and again how the big shots deserve all the millions and billions they've acquired, and it's just because we're a bunch of lazy slackers that we aren't fabulously wealthy, too. As drains on society, we should be grateful for any crumbs that fall off the table of our betters (and you can tell who's better because they have so much more money). But where are they now? Why aren't they pitching in and saving this society they've built with their own two hands? The way things are organized inures to their great benefit, but it's the folks on the sanitation truck, the field workers on the farms, and other overworked folks holding things together for the rest of us.

Maybe when this is all over - or maybe even sooner - we should all sit down and make some adjustments to how we order society and how the wealth generated by labor gets distributed.