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

Dan: Such splendid irony old mate. Who would have thought, you had it in you?
Take care and stay safe.
Alan B.

We should be very wary of, and do our best to prevent this “ transition to a cashless purchasing, e-commerce, online shopping, food home deliveries ….” business.

It has already been suggested that the draconian restrictions (necessary or not) that have been imposed will lead to a loss of freedoms after the the crisis is over. Don’t think for one minute that all politicians, including the avuncular Scott Morrison, don’t want more control over you. Our economy will be wrecked by his ‘let me throw money at ya’ response to the China virus; and we should be even more worried about how much our democratic rights and freedoms will be wrecked, too.

The latest stunt from some retailers is cards only payment; and the bureaucrats and elites who want more control over you and your money are rubbing their hands with glee at the idea that this could be the beginning of what they have been talking about imposing on us for some time.

Murray Hunter’s speculations I will not comment on. But you can bet your Visa card that most of us will be a lot worse off when when the dust settles.

tbbn, that might be true, but at times /crisis's like this, the positive among us, might actually help drive and deliver the reforms people like you and me, whinge about..

I am going to be positive, glass half full and see where it goes... While you seem ( correct me if I am wrong) have already assumed it will be worse.

If you don't engage and try an stop your worst fears… then your attitude and you are to blame for the fulfillment of your own prophecy. Think about it mate!

MasterCard will be the first to increase the 'tap and go' amount to $200, so if your cards are lost or pinched, you will be able to whinge about some stranger being able to clean out your bank account twice as fast.

Coles are 'disappointed' that customers are buying more than the limit of baby formula. What? Their limits don't mean anything? Customers at the checkout are not being told that they are not to buy more than the limit? The security guards adding to the cost of everything are not doing their jobs? Are Coles and and other super markets bragging about their restrictions just full of shite?

ttbn,

Here is how your lovely mates are doing things at Coles:

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/coronavirus/shocking-moment-hoarders-fill-five-shopping-trolleys-with-baby-formula-at-a-coles-supermarket-in-a-westfield-shopping-centre/ar-BB129oBB?li=AAgfYrC

That pretty much shows that Coles is full of shite, as I suggested. In my local Drakes, my wife was talking to an employee when he excused himself to follow a woman he had seen go out with her shopping, then come back in. A relatively small, Australian organisation can try to protect its customers who do the right thing; the global chains will not.

We are all in this together and the usual bigot's blame game/hate speech, solves nothing, helps nobody!

Giving the Chinese a heaping helping of the usual froth loaded vehement spittle-flecked hate speech won't help save a single soul!

It's not the Chinese per se you need have concern for, just their leaders and some less than hygienic cultural practises?

The world has learned that ww111 is not nation against nation, but the entire world fighting for human survival and economic survival against a pathogen deadlier than the Great Plague, but for antivirals/effective vaccine.

Some of having discovered, idealogy just hinders immensely, whereas letting go of all that entrenched BS, actually allows what is needed doing, is done!

And when it's behind us, a very different world, best served if the international cooperation and its handmaiden, cooperative capitalism continues!

On the clear understanding that co-ops almost alone, were the only, private enterprise, free market, business model tha mostly survived, the Great Depression, largely intact!

Generously allocated funds found by actuating our social credit, allowed us to ride out the emergency and it that very same social credit we will need to deploy and in full measure without bean-counting restriction to rebuild a vastly more self-sufficient and even more robust manufacturing-based economy!

And leave Australia a vastly better more inclusive unified country as the best possible outcome for the vast expenditure and give we do so, also supply that needed to pay down the debt without also condemning future generations to medieval-style penury and existence.

Given the world continues to cooperate for the benefit of the whole human race rather than the ever-demanding pampered privileged popinjays, we may yet obtain the promised one thousand years of peace and prosperity?

If one were a religious man? One may well see the hand of God forcing cooperation on us, even if a few recalcitrants want to return to the business as usual/conflict model?
Take care and stay safe!
Alan B.