If one were religious? One might be tempted to see the hand of God here enforcing equality and a change to cooperative capitalism. Extreme capitalism was changed by the Great Depression. and new policies ushered in a period of unprecedented prosperity.

With the recalcitrants resisting kicking and screaming!

I mean, nations starved under mountains of food, as cargos of grain were tossed overboard rather than deliver them to customers who couldn't pay, through no fault of their own!

Since the new deal and the period of unprecedented post-war prosperity, a conservative element gradually wound back cooperative capitalism an instead forced a new paradigm on us that destroyed egalitarian and fair-minded outcomes, in favour of more and more of our finite wealth concentrating in fewer and fewer hands.

Via money plucked from thin air by derivatives and now bitcoin, [same animal different mother.]

Fortunes will be lost and those who survive will need to share their wealth with those who earn it for them! Finally understanding, we're all in this together and if we all have to share the pain? Then to not just survive commercially, but prosper!

Those that cross the bridge, will need as much goodwill and cooperation from loyal employes, who will assist recovery if they also share the gains far more equitably than now. The goodwill bought with this measure will be worth gold in the days to come!

Those businesses that want to socialise the losses and privatise the profits should be shown the door unless or until, government bailouts result in transferred equity!

Cooperative capitalism may look like communism to the indifferent recalcitrants, who just want to return to the same old same old, status quo? But as different as chalk and cheese.

When we emerge from this crisis with a greater death toll than two world wars?

If we haven't taken on board the lessons learnt, then we don't deserve yet another chance!
Alan B.

What do people think about those businesses who will try to profiteer from the coronavirus pandemic?

China inc.

Consumers have long memories and things done now will figure prominently when we have all been vaccinated and back to near normal?

But in a very different Australia where playing by the rules and sharing the pain, will be remembered!

All the, lower than a snake's belly, price gouging and profiteering right now, or simply excluding some items because the mark-up isn't maximised, will come into play, once the preppers are out of our shops and our hair with their end of world convictions/preparations.

But are not immune and may need a few of the folks they've ripped off to assist them? One hopes that memories don't fade and their treatment ought to reflect back on them that which they dished when they could, but should'na?

But particularly in those towns serviced by a single supermarket with an avaricious proprietor! Who thinks it's all about him/her!?

And I know you know who they are!
Alan B.

HHmmmm!. the guy has a fundamental point that none of the posts so far seems to have missed! 6 months from now, when the dust has settled, a lot of changes in business will become apparent. World politics and "arraignments" will have changed.

Meanwhile bluffocrats at local, state and federal level will remain immune to the pain that we plebes will endure.

The KISS theory seems to me to be addressing the issue by identifying the root problem, overpopulation. Turning the mindset of the West, into the acceptance of Chinese clone-think is not acceptable.

Trump, ahead of his time, is onto it. Allow Mother Nature to thin-out world overpopulation by pandemic.

With this mindset, third world countries, with their crowded slums and abismal poverty will benefit greatly by a cull of pandemic.

Our own poverty trapped populations of welfare dependence and homelessness, (street slummers), will evaporate likewise. Reducing the burden on the productive arms of society, who can afford to pay market prices for inoculations, buying personal safety, saved by Capitalism working as intended

Retail will return to its glory days, as the worthwhile and wealthy roam depopulated shopping centres. Universities will return to tending the needs of the worthy, as was their original designed purpose, air quality will return to levels of quality not remembered.

The need for left wing agitators will be defunct and the need for carraling vast cities of worthless individuals behind Orwellian nightmares, highlighted in this article as our future, will not exist.

Dan